The Ontario Court of Appeal has sided with farmers and overturned a lower court ruling that blockd the province’s law against farm trespassing by animal activists.
The so-called gag law was opposed by animal activist groups who want the right to snoop on farms as “under-cover agents”
Lawyer Kaitlyn Mitchell, director of legal advocacy at Animal Justice, said "without laws to protect farmed animals or meaningful oversight, undercover investigations and brave employee whistleblowers are the only way the public can learn the truth about how animals live on large industrial farms and die in slaughterhouses.
“The public deserves to know how vulnerable animals are being treated behind closed doors," Mitchell said.
Farmers asked the government to pass the law in 2020 against trespassing and snooping on livestock and poultry farms.
The news release from the organization is riddled with overblown rhetoric that skirts the edges of truth.
They would do more good by using their resources and undercover snooping skills to check out homeless encampment for human abuses.
