Re: Humane treatment is good business, Feb. 13

Humane treatment is good business, Feb. 13

Thomas Walkom’s column on animal transport regulations literally moved me to tears.

I am an animal lover and an animal eater, if it is possible to be both, but even those who are neither should be horrified by the CFIA’s existing regulations.

Inhumane is not a strong enough word for the current rules, and I hesitate to use the word “toothless” for the proposed revisions, having read in Walkom’s column the shocking fact that these poor creatures have their teeth removed with bolt cutters prior to transport.

I want to know what we can do, not only as consumers but as human beings, to make our objections to the existing and proposed legislation heard. Surely speaking up loudly to effect changes to the animal transport regulations is the least we can do for our fellow mammals.

Mary K. Nolan, Dundas

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