Jessica Scott-ReidJessica Scott-Reid is a Montreal-based freelance writer and animal advocate.
These actions are apparently ramping up, with farms in the United States and Britain also recently being targeted, along with several farms and slaughterhouses across Australia this past weekend. Transparency in animal farming has become a matter of mounting concern, as more Canadians become interested in the origins of their food, and the treatment of farmed animals. The topic recently came up in a debate on, featuring animal-rights lawyer Camille Labchuk and dairy farmer Bonnie den Haan. In the segment, Ms. den Haan insisted that “farm animals are not behind closed doors,” and that dairy farmers act with transparency.
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