EXCERPT FROM THE ANIMAL DEFENSE LEAGUE OF CANADA NEWSLETTER  BULLETIN #178  FALL/WINTER 2011

“FACTORY-FARM BARN FIRES FILL OVER 23,000 ANIMALS IN FOUR DAYS” From Canadians for Ethical Treatment of Food Animals (CETFA), Vancouver, B.C., July 26, 2011

(Paraphrased):

‘Factory-barn fires are preventable – but they continue to occur because, in order to cut costs, they are highly automated with insufficient human maintenance and oversight.  This in spite of the fact that the toxic air from the waste of thousands of animals doesn’t only corrode the lungs of the confined animals – it also corrodes electrical wires and raises the likelihood of fire.  Furthermore, these animal death camps often lack either smoke sensors or sprinkler systems.  In this fire-trap situation, with many of the animals confined to metal gestation crates, concrete pens or battery cages, for animals to escape from the inferno is virtually impossible.”

STATISTICS:

QUEBEC:

Jan 7, 2011:   20,000 rabbits and 4,000 piglets burn alive

Jan 22,2011:  70 diary cows burn alive

Mar 5, 2011:   300 pigs burna alive

Mar 18, 2011:  125 beef cattle burn alive

ONTARIO:

Jan 24, 2011:   35 cattle burn alive

July 24, 2011:  650 pigs burn alive

July 25, 2011:  650 pigs burn alive

SASKATCHEWAN

Feb 26, 2011:  7,000 turkeys burn alive

MANITOBA

Mar 23, 2011:   16,000 chickens burn alive

May 21, 2011:   4,000 pigs burn alive

June 8, 2011:    12,000 chickens burn alive

July 22, 2011:  12,000 chickens burn alive

ALBERTA

Mar 31,2011:   2,000 pigs burn alive

June 8, 2011:   30,000 hens burn alive

July 24, 2011:   600 pigs burn alive

BLOGGERS COMMENT:  THIS IS TOTALLY PREVENTABLE!!!   THIS IS TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE!!!    THIS CAN NO LONGER BE TOLERATED!!!

Well put by the ADLC in their own comment:  “Insurance companies take note – please raise premiums for factory barns lacking smoke sensors and sprinkler systems.”

In the mind of this writer:  Logic dictates that the simple installation of these life saving devices would save hundreds of thousands of Factory Farm Animals…does it not?  Properly retrofitting existing barns, by investing any farm subsidies received from the Federal Government to run such operations..makes sense…does it not?

Consider the amount of money that insurance companies dole out when these horrific incidents occur…don’t think for a minute that those insurance premiums paid out are not somehow reflected and passed on in the insurance premiums increases that we all are subject to.

What is truly THE TRAGEDY is that these confined, imprisoned, terrified animals suffered an excruciating death…why…so that the owners/operators of these Factory Farms could save a buck!!!!

Factory Farms with their gestation crates/pens are repositories of pure hell.

Battery hens, turkeys, pigs, all manner of food animals suffer!!

One need only do their research to learn the truth!!

Warning some of the videos and images contained in the links below are extremely graphic and horrifying.

http://www.idausa.org/facts/factoryfarmfacts.html

The Website the Meat Industry Doesn’t Want You to See

http://www.meat.org/

Realities of farming in Canada

http://cfhs.ca/farm/farming_in_canada/

Factory Farming in Canada

http://www.chooseveg.ca/animal-cruelty-canada.asp

http://www.farmsanctuary.org/issues/factoryfarming/

Images from Factory Farms

http://www.google.ca/search?q=factory+farms&hl=en&biw=1920&bih=876&prmd=imvnsb&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=r4J_TsSRE4_UiALOw9W5Aw&sqi=2&ved=0CGgQsAQ

Canadian Coalition for Farm Animals

http://www.humanefood.ca/faqs.html

Cruelty of Factory Farming

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaHXA1LLB_I

The Pork Industry

http://www.peta.org/issues/animals-used-for-food/pork-industry.aspx

Images  of Pig Factory Farming

http://www.google.ca/search?q=pig+factory+farming&hl=en&sa=X&biw=1920&bih=876&prmd=imvns&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&ei=TYV_Tp7iNIHjiALd15i6Aw&ved=0CF0QsAQ

Investigation Reveals Cruelty at Pig Factory Farm

http://www.youtube.com/verify_age?next_url=http%3A//www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DfDiSR0LGry8

Undercover at Smithfield Foods

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_vqIGTKuQE

The Worst Abuses in Factory Farming

http://www.animalfreedom.org/english/information/abuses.html

Undercover Footage from Pig Factory Farm

http://www.youtube.com/verify_age?next_url=http%3A//www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3D7eQQQBn4dlo

The Battery Hen: Her Life Is Not For The Birds

http://www.all-creatures.org/articles/egg-battery.html

Images of Battery Cages

http://www.google.ca/search?q=battery+cages&hl=en&client=firefox-a&sa=X&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&biw=1920&bih=876&prmd=imvns&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&ei=tol_TqX_FfTXiAKr8PG5Aw&ved=0CEUQsAQ

 

Veal : A Cruel Meal

http://www.britishmeat.com/veal.html

Cruelty to Baby Calves at Veal Farm in Ohio

http://www.youtube.com/verify_age?next_url=http%3A//www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DY82jTI3BqRM

 

Veal Factory Farming Images

http://www.google.ca/search?q=battery+cages&hl=en&client=firefox-a&sa=X&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&biw=1920&bih=876&prmd=imvns&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&ei=tol_TqX_FfTXiAKr8PG5Aw&ved=0CEUQsAQ#hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US%3Aofficial&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=Veal+Factory+Farming&pbx=1&oq=Veal+Factory+Farming&aq=f&aqi=&aql=1&gs_sm=s&gs_upl=46095l54038l0l56644l33l29l0l0l0l15l261l4911l0.19.10l29l0&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&fp=a2b7cc7595ae4c8d&biw=1920&bih=876