About Us - Animal Justice
WEBAnimal Justice is Canada’s only national animal law advocacy organization. We believe that animals need lawyers, and our legal team works to protect animals from cruelty and neglect. Canada has some of the worst animal protection laws in the Western world, and our mission is to overhaul the legal system to better reflect our country’s ...
Animal Experiments in Canada - Animal Justice
WEBProgress Against Animal Testing for Cosmetics & Toxicity. In 2023, Canada passed two groundbreaking laws to protect animals used for research. The first is legislation aimed at phasing out the use of animals in toxicity tests.Toxicity tests are used to test chemicals to see whether they are harmful to the environment or human health, and many of these tests fall into the cruellest and most ...
Crisis of Cruelty in Canada’s Zoos - Animal Justice
WEBNov 5, 2022 · Crisis of Cruelty in Canada’s Zoos. By Animal Justice. November 5, 2022. X. Animal Justice is releasing the largest investigation of zoos that has ever been undertaken in Canada. We visited nearly every zoo in Ontario—the roadside zoo capital of the country. Our video footage reveals widespread suffering, injuries, death, and troubling ...
Legal Protections for Pets in Canada - Animal Justice
WEBMore Ways To Give. Choose Amount. $15. $35. $100. or. It’s easy to imagine that companion animals such as cats, dogs, rabbits, and the other animals we keep as pets, have strong legal protections against cruelty and neglect in Canada. Unfortunately, this is often not the case.
Victory! Animal Justice Defeats Ontario Ag Gag Law in Court
WEBApr 3, 2024 · A win for animals and free expression! Animal Justice lawyers have successfully defeated much of Ontario’s ag gag law in court—a law aimed at silencing whistleblowers and journalists who go undercover to investigate and expose animal suffering in the meat, dairy, egg, and fur farming industries.. In 2020, Ontario passed Bill 156, the Security from Trespass and Protecting Food Safety Act, a ...
Animals on Farms in Canada - Animal Justice
WEBFarmed animals in Canada suffer on a scale that is difficult to imagine. In 2022, over 841 million land animals were killed for food in Canadian slaughterhouses.The total number is unquestionably higher, because government statistics don’t include the millions of animals who die in transport en route to slaughter each year––or who arrive so sick or injured that they must be killed upon ...
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The Animal Justice Online Store
WEBThe Animal Justice Store. $25.00 CAD. This is the official online store of Animal Justice, Canada's only national animal law non-profit. All proceeds from sales go to support Animal Justice's mission for animal protection. Shop All Tees.
Animal Justice is Going to Court to Protect Animals Harmed by …
WEBApr 25, 2024 · The Federal Court of Appeal has granted Animal Justice intervener status in a legal challenge about Canada’s regulation of plastic products under the Canadian Environmental Protection Act (CEPA).The appeal has significant implications for animals – millions of whom are injured and even killed by plastics released into the environment each year – and Animal Justice will work to advance ...
Legal Protections for Wild Animals in Canada - Animal Justice
WEBWild Animals. Canada’s beautiful and diverse wildlife is part of our country’s pride, but wild animals benefit from few legal protections. Wild animals in Canada are subjected to trophy hunting, trapping, fishing, poisoning, and extermination programs. Meanwhile, the international trade in wild animals depletes populations, causes ...