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https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zvcIFoPDpXByX8eV6VPvjm_k_x7A-_t68Ox81vvjSCs/edit?usp=sharing

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https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/our-animal-cruelty-laws-need-to-catch-up-in-2018/article38109498/

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/animal-protection-bill-c84-bestiality-1.5181494

https://globalnews.ca/news/6096521/ontario-government-animal-welfare-legislation/

https://www.canadianveterinarians.net/policy-advocacy/animal-abuse

http://animalprotectionservices.ca/get-informed/

https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/annualstatutes/2008_12/page-1.html

https://globalnews.ca/tag/animal-cruelty/

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NCPAC Case Law Database | NCPAC Case Law Database

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Ms. Kwissa was observed by an off duty Animal Control Officer being physically abusive towards a young pup by the name of 'Oscar'. Kwissa was seen slamming the dog on the cement as well as "hanging" the pup to the point of all four paws being lifted off the ground.

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This link contains many videos of different reports on animal cruelty in Canada.

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Animal Cruelty | News, Videos & Articles

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Animal Cruelty videos and latest news articles; GlobalNews.ca your source for the latest news on Animal Cruelty .

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‘This was a good year for animal rights – here are 11 of the biggest wins’

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Brands, governments and individuals have made strides towards a cruelty-free world

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To ensure that animals are treated with care and respect, Hendrix Genetics has a zero tolerance policy on animal abuse. Only trained and competent employees are permitted to handle animals. In addition, each employee is required to sign an animal welfare policy-whether or not they have direct contact with animals. Hendrix Genetics has developed an animal welfare program for each of its species that is tailored to the characteristics of the animals and the specific regulations of the sector. These standards are applied consistently across the world and exceed the standards expected by local regulations. The animal welfare procedures are continuously monitored and improved.

Hendrix Genetics has voluntarily adopted Code-EFABAR to embrace their commitment to animal welfare and to improve sustainability for the entire food chain. Code-EFABAR is designed to provide breeding organizations with a practical guide and tool to help achieve sustainable and balanced animal breeding and to deliver improved transparency for all of society.

Hendrix Genetics believes there is far more than just efficiency to consider in producing food-a sustainable future is a future that includes an established sustainability program with animal welfare as one of the building blocks. As a leader in animal genetics, Hendrix Genetics is proud to stand at the start of the food chain and embrace high animal welfare standards that will ensure a sustainable future.

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To ensure that animals are treated with care and respect, Hendrix Genetics has a zero tolerance policy on animal abuse. Only trained and competent employees are permitted to handle animals. In addition, each employee is required to sign an animal welfare policy-whether or not they have direct contact with animals.

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The shocking number of animal cruelty cases reported every day is just the tip of the iceberg-most cases are never reported. Unlike violent crimes against people, cases of animal abuse are not compiled by state or federal agencies, making it difficult to calculate just how common they are. However, we can use the information that is available to try to understand and prevent cases of abuse.

Who abuses animals?

Cruelty and neglect cross all social and economic boundaries and media reports suggest that animal abuse is common in both rural and urban areas.

Intentional cruelty to animals is strongly correlated with other crimes, including violence against people.

Hoarding behavior often victimizes animals. Sufferers of a hoarding disorder may impose severe neglect on animals by housing far more than they are able to adequately take care of. Serious animal neglect (such as hoarding) is often an indicator of people in need of social or mental health services.

Surveys suggest that those who intentionally abuse animals are predominantly men under 30, while those involved in animal hoarding are more likely to be women over 60.

Most common victims

The animals whose abuse is most often reported are dogs, cats, horses and livestock. Undercover investigations have revealed that animal abuse abounds in the factory farm industry. But because of the weak protections afforded to livestock under state cruelty laws, only the most shocking cases are reported, and few are ever prosecuted.

Organized cruelty

Dogfighting, cockfighting and other forms of organized animal cruelty go hand in hand with other crimes, and continues in many areas of the United States due to public corruption.

The HSUS documented uniformed police officers at a cockfighting pit in Kentucky.

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency has prosecuted multiple cases where drug cartels were running narcotics through cockfighting and dogfighting operations.

Dozens of homicides have occurred at cockfights and dogfights.

A California man was killed in a disagreement about a $10 cockfight bet.

The HSUS's investigative team combats complacent public officials and has worked with the FBI on public corruption cases in Tennessee and Virginia. In both instances, law enforcement officers were indicted and convicted.

Correlation with domestic violence

Data on domestic violence and child abuse cases reveal that a staggering number of animals are targeted by those who abuse their children or spouses.

There are approximately 70 million pet dogs and 74.1 million pet cats in the U.S. where 20 men and women are assaulted per minute (an average of around 10 million a year).

In one survey, 71 % of domestic violence victims reported that their abuser also targeted pets.

In one study of families under investigation for suspected child abuse, researchers found that pet abuse had occurred in 88 % of the families under supervision for physical abuse of their children.

To put a stop to this pattern of violence, the Humane Society Legislative Fund supported the Pets and Women's Safety (PAWS) Act, introduced to Congress in 2015 as H.R. 1258 and S.B. 1559 and enacted as part of the farm bill passed by Congress and signed by President Trump in 2018. Once fully enacted, the PAWS Act helps victims of domestic abuse find the means to escape their abusers while keeping their companion animals safe-many victims remain in abusive households for fear of their pets' safety.

State legislative trends

The HSUS has long led the push for stronger animal cruelty laws and provides training for law officials to detect and prosecute these crimes. With South Dakota joining the fight in March of 2014, animal cruelty laws now include felony provisions in all 50 states.

First vs. subsequent offense

Given that a fraction of animal cruelty acts are reported or successfully prosecuted, we are committed to supporting felony convictions in cases of severe cruelty.

49 states have laws to provide felony penalties for animal torture on the first offense.

Only Iowa doesn't have such a law.

Animal cruelty laws typically cover intentional and egregious animal neglect and abuse.

Changes in federal tracking

On January 1, 2016, the FBI added cruelty to animals as a category in the Uniform Crime Report, a nationwide crime reporting system commonly used in homicide investigations. While only about a third of U.S. communities currently participate in the system, the data generated will help create a clearer picture of animal abuse and guide strategies for intervention and enforcement. Data collection covers four categories: simple/gross neglect, intentional abuse and torture, organized abuse (such as dogfighting and cockfighting) and animal sexual abuse.

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Facts, statistics and trends of animal abuse, animal cruelty and abused animals in the U.S.

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"We can judge the heart of  a man by his treatment of animals."
- Immanuel Kant

"Animals should not require our permission to live on earth. Animals were given the right to be here long before we arrived."  - Anthony Douglas Williams

"As long as there are slaughterhouses, there will be battlefields."
- Leo Tolstoy

"I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say, 'because it's such a beautiful animal.' I think my mother is attractive but I have photographs of her."  - Ellen Degeneres

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Regan dispels the negative image of animal rights advocates perpetrated by the mass media, unmasks the fraudulent rhetoric of 'humane treatment' favored by animal exploiters, and explains why existing laws function to legitimize institutional cruelty.

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Animal Protection Act

The Animal Protection Act, 2018 is the Saskatchewan law that protects animals from abuse and distress. It is available online here.

The Act says that:

No person shall cause an animal to be in distress

No person responsible for an animal shall cause or permit the animal to be or continue to be in distress

An animal is in distress if it is:

1. deprived of food or water sufficient to maintain the animal in a state of good health;

2. deprived of care or shelter;

3. deprived of veterinary care or medical attention;

4. in need of reasonable protection from injurious heat or cold;

5. wounded, ill, in pain, suffering, abused or neglected;

6. kept in conditions that: are unsanitary; will significantly impair the animal's health or well being over time; cause the animal anxiety or suffering; or contravene the prescribed standards, codes of practice or guidelines;

7. abandoned by its owner or by a person responsible for the animal in a manner that causes, or is likely to cause, distress resulting from any or all the factors listed

A list of "Codes of Practice" that describe acceptable care standards for animals can be found in the Animal Protection Act Regulations here.

If a person is convicted under this Act, the possible penalties are:

A fine of up to $25,000

Imprisonment for up to 2 years

A prohibition or restriction on owning animals for a specific period

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Get Informed | Animal Protection Services of Saskatchewan

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The Animal Protection Act, 2018 is the Saskatchewan law that protects animals from abuse and distress. It is available online here.

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Animal rights: Animal rights, moral or legal entitlements attributed to nonhuman animals, usually because of the complexity of their cognitive, emotional, and social lives or their capacity to experience physical or emotional pain or pleasure. Historically, different views of the scope of animal rights have

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The case against animal rights

A number of arguments are put forward against the idea that animals have rights.

Animals don't think

Animals are not really conscious

Animals were put on earth to serve human beings

Animals don't have souls

Animals don't behave morally

Animals are not members of the 'moral community'

Animals lack the capacity for free moral judgment

Animals don't think

St Thomas Aquinas taught that animals acted purely on instinct while human beings engaged in rational thought.

This distinction provided the frontier between human beings and animals, and was regarded as a suitable criterion for assessing a being's moral status.

Animals are not really conscious

The French philosopher Rene Descartes, and many others, taught that animals were no more than complicated biological robots.

This meant that animals were not the sort of thing that was entitled to have any rights - or indeed any moral consideration at all.

Animals were put on earth to serve human beings

This view comes originally from the Bible, but probably reflects a basic human attitude towards other species.

Christian theologians developed this idea - St Augustine taught that "by a most just ordinance of the Creator, both their [animals'] life and their death are subject to our use."

St Thomas Aquinas taught that the universe was constructed as a hierarchy in which beings at a lower level were there to serve those above them.

As human beings were above animals in this hierarchy they were entitled to use animals in any way they wanted.

However, as C.S. Lewis pointed out:

Animals don't have souls

Christian theologians used to teach that only beings with souls deserved ethical consideration.

Animals did not have souls and therefore did not have any moral rights.

This argument is no longer regarded as useful, because the idea of the soul is very controversial and unclear, even among religious people. Furthermore it is not possible to establish the existence of the soul (human or animal) in a valid experimental way.

This also makes it difficult to argue, as some theologians have done, that animals should have rights because they do have souls.

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This article discusses whether non-human animals have rights, and what is meant by animal rights.

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After much neglect, the animals must rebel against their human masters in order be free and equal.

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Animal Farm   George Orwell Full Length Animated Movie, 1954

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Robert Wyatt sings about a specific case of pig cruelty.

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We chose PETA because they are possibly the most well known animal rights group

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Almost all of us grew up eating meat, wearing leather, and going to circuses and zoos. Many of us bought our beloved "pets" at pet shops and kept beautiful birds in cages. We wore wool and silk, ate McDonald's burgers, and fished. We never considered the impact of these actions on the animals involved. For whatever reason, you are now asking the question: Why should animals have rights?
In his book Animal Liberation, Peter Singer states that the basic principle of equality does not require equal or identical treatment; it requires equal consideration. This is an important distinction when talking about animal rights. People often ask if animals should have rights, and quite simply, the answer is "Yes!" Animals surely deserve to live their lives free from suffering and exploitation. Jeremy Bentham, the founder of the reforming utilitarian school of moral philosophy, stated that when deciding on a being's rights, "The question is not 'Can they reason?' nor 'Can they talk?' but 'Can they suffer?'" In that passage, Bentham points to the capacity for suffering as the vital characteristic that gives a being the right to equal consideration. The capacity for suffering is not just another characteristic like the capacity for language or higher mathematics. All animals have the ability to suffer in the same way and to the same degree that humans do. They feel pain, pleasure, fear, frustration, loneliness, and motherly love. Whenever we consider doing something that would interfere with their needs, we are morally obligated to take them into account.

Supporters of animal rights believe that animals have an inherent worth-a value completely separate from their usefulness to humans. We believe that every creature with a will to live has a right to live free from pain and suffering. Animal rights is not just a philosophy-it is a social movement that challenges society's traditional view that all nonhuman animals exist solely for human use. As PETA founder Ingrid Newkirk has said, "When it comes to pain, love, joy, loneliness, and fear, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy. Each one values his or her life and fights the knife." Watch a video with Ingrid Newkirk from the 2015 Animal Rights National Conference here.

Only prejudice allows us to deny others the rights that we expect to have for ourselves. Whether it's based on race, gender, sexual orientation, or species, prejudice is morally unacceptable. If you wouldn't eat a dog, why eat a pig? Dogs and pigs have the same capacity to feel pain, but it is prejudice based on species that allows us to think of one animal as a companion and the other as dinner.

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Almost all of us grew up eating meat, wearing leather, and going to circuses and zoos.

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Blackfish Official Trailer #1 (2013) - Documentary Movie HD

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Q: How do you count cows?
A: With a cowculator.

Q: Why do the French eat snails?
A: They don't like fast food.