How many slaughterhouses in canada

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Canadian Food Inspection Agency www. Skip to content Skip to institutional links. Click on the route or the place markers to read the details. If you know of an abattoir that is not included on the map, please contact us. For more information on long distance transportation and animal welfare issues visit The Canadian Coalition for Farm Animals.

Sustainable Dictionary Who we are Contact us Newsroom. There are close to pig slaughterhouses in Ontario. The following are federally inspected pig slaughterhouses:.

MLatifi SofinaFoods. Sofina Foods Turkey slaughterhouse , Frank St. Clair Avenue], Tel: A couple of blocks away, we held our Sunday vigils at the site where the pigs were unloaded with paddles and electric prods at Wellington Street West. On any given hour on Lakeshore Drive, one could see several transport trucks crammed with pigs heading towards the Tecumseth slaughterhouse via Strachan Avenue and Wellington Street West. The health effects of absorption of fine particulates include bacterial infections and respiratory symptoms, aggravated asthma and cancer, with risks highest for the elderly and children.

Toronto Pig Save launched a neighbourhood campaign by holding three vigils a week. Before we started the vigils in July , the key issues were smell and noise pollution, and for some concerns about the pigs welfare.

Karlie works on Niagara Street and says she became vegetarian after she started working in the neighbourhood:. However, the Toronto Star article, for the most part, trivialized the plight of pigs and the concerns of the community.

A number of accidents have occurred on the highway leaving dead and injured pigs, and sometimes dozens of pigs freely roaming the highways for a few hours. On October 4, , a tractor-trailer from Woodstock carrying pigs was overturned on a ramp from southbound Highway to the eastbound Gardiner just before a.

Eighty-one pigs died, while many pigs got loose and were free for a short while, before they were corralled and sent to their bitter end at the QMP slaughterhouse.

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