Tuesday, August 18, 2020

CFIA lays charges against Hylife

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has filed three animal abuse charges against hog-production companies Hylife Ltd. and Hylife Foods LLP of Neepewa, Manitoba.

The companies are to appear in court in Winnipeg to respond to the charges which relate to things that happened Sept. 18.


Hylife is a large fully-integrated hog production and pork packing company. Among its holdings are the former Springhill Hutterite colony’s hog-packing plant.


Last year Charoen Pokphand Foods Public Company Limited (CPF of Thailand bought half of Hylife for $498 million.


Charoen operates in 17 countries and exports around the world.