The Canadian Farm Animal Care Trust was incorporated in 1989. Its aims and objectives are to encourage the development and use of systems that subject farm animals to the minimum amount of stress, distress or injury in the rearing, transportation, and slaughter of these animals.
CANFACT will co-operate with any producer group which is interested in developing and using new, innovative systems and with individual farmers who may wish to convert to a less ‘intensive’ system.
How can CanFACT achieve its goals?
By encouraging the development and adoption of alternative systems. To do this, CANFACT is supporting research into new, alternative systems and, at the same time, encouraging marketing strategies that will encourage farmer to use those alternative systems that have been shown to be both practical and economical. In particular we encourage consumers to choose products which have been produced by ‘approved’ less intensive systems, particularly for eggs, veal and pork.
We do encourage Governments and industry to develop and implement regulations for the transportation of farm animals which will protect these animals from unnecessary suffering whilst en route from the producer to the packing plant.
We do concern ourselves with the methods of slaughtering food animals. Our Directors have expertise which we have offered to slaughter houses across Canada, in particular to those plants responsible killing the more exotic animals such as ostrich, rabbit and elk. We are particularly concerned to improve the method used to slaughter poultry.
We do support other organizations that have similar aims and whose methods and tactics are considered worth supporting.