Toronto’s most infamous slaughterhouse reopened on March 1st under new management.
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Ryding Regency Meat Packers was ordered to permanently close due to e-coli contamination in December 2019. But yesterday, with the same general manager, Tru Harvest opened its doors at the same location to kill 83,200 cows and baby calves per year. The majority of the mother cows are pregnant at the time of slaughter.
Activists from Toronto Pig Save and Toronto Cow Save held joint actions yesterday outside the CFIA offices in Toronto at midday, and held a cow vigil outside Tru Harvest Meats from 1:30pm to 3pm to protest this egregious atrocity and demand the license for Tru Harvest be withdrawn.
“Slaughterhouses across Canada have been the site of many of the country’s worst COVID-19 outbreaks, and it’s indefensible that the provincial and federal governments would be allowing this business to re-open,” says Jenny McQueen, an activist with Toronto Pig Save. “Dairy is a leading cause of environmental degradation, as well as being directly linked to negative health outcomes. We’re calling on the federal government to cease subsidies that are going towards propping up a collapsing cow milk industry that kills mother cows once their dairy production slows and ‘veal’ calves under 12 months old who have not been given the chance for life. We also call on the federal government and the CFIA to withdraw the license for Tru Harvest Meats and shut them down.”
What You Can Do:
- Join us in demanding the CFIA withdraw Tru Harvest’s license.
- CALL the CFIA on 1-800-442-2342 and ask them to take action or contact them using their feedback form: http://www.inspection.gc.ca/about-the-cfia/contact-us/eng/1299860523723/1299860643049
- If you live in Toronto, join us for our weekly cow vigils, Tuesday mornings 10am - 12pm at St. Helens slaughterhouse, 1-3 Glen Scarlett Rd (opposite the proposed site of new slaughterhouse).
- Toronto Pig Save have launched a petition to close down Tru Harvest. Please sign by clicking here share widely.
- Together we can STOP Tru Harvest!