Animal Rights Activists and Agricultural Gag Laws

In response 'Animal rights activists threaten our health and food supply,' (The Hill Times, Oct. 8) to my previous op-ed 'Unjust, unwise, and unconstitutional: Bill C-275 has no place in Canada,' (The Hill Times, Oct. 30) about agricultural gag, or “ag-gag” laws, former Conservative MP Robert Sopuck misses the mark on several key points.

Sopuck rightly emphasizes the vulnerability of concentrated animal feeding operations (also known as CAFOs or, more colloquially, “factory farms”) to diseases, underscoring the necessity for stringent sanitation measures. One would think, given the stakes, that we would have national, standardized biosecurity protocols for farms, coupled with government oversight to ensure compliance. However, no such federal requirements or enforcement exists; there are only voluntary biosecurity guidelines published by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, and a patchwork provincial system inadequate to the challenge of a borderless threat like disease. Riana Topan is the senior campaign manager with Humane Society International/Canad

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