Farm animals
CFHS accepts only those practices for care, management and use of farm animals which provide high levels of care for the animals, protect them from suffering at all stages of their lives, respect the welfare of individual animals and provide for the animals’ physical and psychological well-being and behavioural needs.
May 1999
1. Humane Slaughter
Position Statement
CFHS accepts the raising and marketing of animals for food and other products where there is a standard of care that ensures the welfare of the animals and believes that the standards set out in the Recommended Codes of Practice for Farm Animals are the minimum levels of acceptable care and handling of all livestock.
The position of the Federation is that while it recognizes that literally millions of animals are slaughtered for food each year, that it should be done as humanely as possible, with no pain to the animal. The Meat Inspections Act requires every operator and every person engaged in the handling and slaughtering of a food animal in a registered establishment shall comply with Sections 61.1 to 80 of the Meat Inspection Regulations.
CFHS has great concern about animal welfare in illegal slaughterhouse operations, provincially licensed abattoirs and animal transportation operations.
CFHS is thus opposed to inhumane methods of slaughter.
(Sources: Meat Inspection Act, 1990; BC SPCA; Alberta Humane Society; Ontario SPCA)
January 2012
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