Livestock

A process set up by Canada’s National Farm Animal Care Council will be used to update a national code of practice for beef cattle production. The Beef Code of Practice, to be updated in partnership with the Canadian Cattlemen’s Association, will be one of the first such codes to enter the NFACC process. The NFACC […] Read more

The founder of processor Cardinal Meat Specialists has become the first Canadian admitted to the Meat Industry Hall of Fame. Ralph Cator, who founded Cardinal as a restaurant meat supplier in 1966, was officially inducted Saturday into the hall of fame, alongside 11 others including McDonald’s founder Ray Kroc, KFC founder Harland Sanders and Wendy’s […] Read more

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency will mark November as National 4-H Month by launching a contest for young people to come up with their own ways to promote livestock biosecurity. The online contest, launched Monday, asks 4-H members and other “like-minded” Canadian young people between ages 12 and 21 to come up with a slogan, […] Read more

The Alberta government will clear a regulatory path for livestock feeder associations to test-run pilot projects looking at different ways to produce and market cattle and to finance that process. Agriculture Minister Jack Hayden last week announced changes to the provincially-operated Feeder Associations Loan Guarantee Program to allow a pilot project for a feeder association […] Read more

A southern Alberta company making biodiesel from animal fats, deep fryer oils and canola oil is due in court next month over alleged discharges from its processing plant. Western Biodiesel and its former operations manager Jason Freeman face joint charges over separate incidents in October 2008 in which wastewater containing biodiesel and methanol was released […] Read more

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency will now be able to slap heavier fines on those who mishandle livestock during transport or otherwise mistreat food animals. The federal government on Wednesday announced it will more than double the CFIA’s maximum available administrative monetary penalties (AMPs), up to $10,000 from the previous $4,000, for those who violate […] Read more

The next “substantive” round of arguing in Canada’s and Mexico’s challenge of mandatory U.S. country-of-origin labelling (COOL) will be open to the public — that is, if the public doesn’t mind keeping its distance. The World Trade Organization’s (WTO) Dispute Settlement Body recently announced that “at the request of the parties in the dispute,” its […] Read more