What's on your plate?

There are 20 times more farm animals than people in Canada but a drive through the countryside doesn't give you that impression.

Factory farming: the problem

Most Canadian farm animals spend their lives crammed into tiny pens, battery cages or crates inside windowless barns. They are fed unnatural diets, antibiotics and suffer painful mutilations like de-beaking and tooth breaking so they can be kept at huge numbers on intensive livestock operations (ILOs).

Our work

We have released a report, What's on your plate? The hidden costs of industrial animal agriculture in Canada that exposes the destructive impacts of ILOs on our health, the environment, animal welfare and rural Canada.

Download a copy of the report.

The solution

World Animal Protection works with governments and corporations to improve regulations and best practices to protect farm animals.

We encourage you to learn about how your food is raised, and demand high standards wherever you buy food.

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October 23 2018
Lab-grown meat, or “clean” meat, is meat that is produced by taking a small sample of animal cells and then replicating them outside of an animal. It is set to change the world and will be on supermarket shelves and restaurant tables in the very near future.

Enriching the barren lives of factory-farmed pigs

October 12 2018
So far, you and more than 213,000 others have signed up to help us get mother pigs out of cages and into groups. Thank you! Ending confinement is vital but more is required to give all pigs the lives they deserve. 

Three reasons why lab-grown meat will be better for the environment

October 10 2018
Lab-grown meat, or “clean” meat, is meat that is produced by taking a small sample of animal cells and then replicating them outside of an animal. It is set to change the world and will be on supermarket shelves and restaurant tables in the very near future.