{"id":17579,"date":"2017-11-28T15:12:34","date_gmt":"2017-11-28T20:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kb.webitgarage.ca\/the-veal-industry-isnt-doing-enough-to-prevent-another-pont-rouge\/"},"modified":"2018-06-10T21:31:23","modified_gmt":"2018-06-11T01:31:23","slug":"the-veal-industry-isnt-doing-enough-to-prevent-another-pont-rouge-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spca.com\/en\/the-veal-industry-isnt-doing-enough-to-prevent-another-pont-rouge-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The veal industry isn\u2019t doing enough to prevent another Pont Rouge"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Montreal, February 9th<\/sup>, 2017 \u2013<\/strong> Despite the highly publicized Pont Rouge calf case<\/a>, which sent shock waves across the country by exposing the cruel practices routinely used in the Canadian veal industry, the new and revised national Code of Practice for the Care and Handling of Veal Cattle<\/a><\/em> continues to allow many of these practices, resulting in severe suffering to calves.<\/p>\n

In 2014, following a disturbing undercover investigation<\/a> conducted by the group Mercy for Animals<\/em> at a milk-fed veal farm located in Pont Rouge, Quebec, the Montreal SPCA launched an investigation into the acts of cruelty and neglect documented in the video. \u00a0The investigation resulted in \u00c9ric Dame, a former employee of the facility, being charged with, and ultimately found guilty of, subjecting animals to abuse and mistreatment. In 2016, he was sentenced<\/a> to a 4,000$ fine and prohibited from owning more than five animals for a period of 15 years.<\/p>\n

Shortly following the release of Mercy for Animals<\/em>\u2019 expos\u00e9, the National Farm Animal Care Council initiated a review of the Code of Practice for the Care and Handling of Veal Cattle <\/em>in order to address animal welfare concerns in the veal industry. Yet the proposed modifications to the code fail to protect calves in any meaningful way by continuing to permit:<\/p>\n