Thursday, April 20, 2023

No surprises in meat plant welfare reports

Somebody asked to see Canadian Food Inspection Reports on hogs arriving at the Sofina plant at Burlington, Ont., and the Cargill beef plant at High River Alberta.


The reports released to Ontario Farmer indicate there were no issues.


But another Access-to-information request for line-speed infractions at CFIA-inspected meat-packing plants in Ontario and Quebec was entirely censored. No information was released, not even the list of packing plants.


If the requests were filed by an animal rights organization, why didn't they make them as public as infamous undercover videos?


But, after all, I don't know who filed the two requests.


Once the Access-to-Information offices finishes processing a request, the information is available to anyone who asks.