By Jimmy Videle – Veganic Farmer and Author Is it possible to grow food without exploiting animals in gardening/homesteading and farming systems? Even if we did not keep domesticated animals, …
Investigation Reveals Piglets Poisoned, Irradiated, Mutilated and Killed for Military Medical Training.
A new Animal Protection Party of Canada (APPC) investigation exposes the cruel, wasteful and dangerous use of piglets for “live tissue training” by the Department of National Defence (DND). The …
Animal Protection Party: 2022 Year in Review
2022 has been a year of incredible growth and development for the Animal Protection Party of Canada (APPC). Even without a federal election taking place, we worked to hold the …
APPC supporting the fight for Proportional Representation in Canada
A fight by Fair Voting BC and Springtide to make Canada’s electoral system more representative has been quietly brewing for the past four years. It has the potential to change …
New Codes of Practice aren’t the G.O.A.T.
It took 20 years and significant animal suffering, but the National Farm Animal Care Council of Canada has new recommended Codes of Practice for the Care and Handling of Goats …
Animal Agriculture a Ticking Time-Bomb for Zoonotic Disease Transmission
The potential for another major animal to human zoonotic disease outbreak is very real with the findings of a recent study investigating samples of the superbug Clostridioides difficile in intensively …
CFIA Abdicates Responsibility Over African Swine Fever to Industry
Initially confined to small farm holdings in Africa when first discovered in the early 1900s, the deadly pig disease African Swine Fever (ASF) began its spread across the world in …
Breaking the Bias for this International Women’s Day
This International Women’s Day, the Animal Protection Party of Canada, in the spirit of this year’s #BreaktheBias theme, asks that people consider female animals who are exploited in the agricultural …
Animals and Politics in Canada 2022.
For humans, 2021 has been a year defined by the persistence of the pandemic. As vaccinations rolled out globally there was much optimism earlier in the year that we would …
B.C. flooding exposes the ongoing disposability of animals in agriculture.
Cover image credit: Nick Schafer Media / We Animals Media Most of the time, the abuse and deaths of hundreds of millions of animals raised and slaughtered for food within …