Agriculture committee  I'm not sure whether the transportation conditions could be satisfactorily improved so that it would continue to be a financially viable business for the people who partake in it.

Agriculture committee  That would be my comment. It would probably not be profitable. The conditions that some of these $250,000 to $500,000 horses travel in are obviously dramatically different from the conditions in which feedlot horses travel.

Agriculture committee  I practice with a multitude of animal species. I'm primarily a companion-animal veterinarian. However, yes, veterinary medicine is one of extrapolation from species to species in terms of drug use and other things, so when called upon, although it's not frequently, I do care for

Agriculture committee  Cows are not part of my day-to-day operation. Small ruminants are not part of my day-to-day operation.

Agriculture committee  They're loud. Other planes are landing and taking off while these horses are being unloaded from the truck and then waiting to be flown. Horses have a keen sense of hearing, like many species of animals, so they would be disturbing, the same way they're disturbing to us, but the

Agriculture committee  If the barometer for animal welfare is how many horses are dead at the end—that is the measure we look at—that is shameful. I would be embarrassed to cite that publicly, because that suggests a total disconnect from an understanding of animal welfare. Of course, there are many ot

Agriculture committee  Thank you.

Agriculture committee  Yes, I support this bill for those reasons. I'm not here representing anyone else but myself as a veterinarian and someone who cares about animal welfare.

Agriculture committee  The draft horses that we're talking about in question here are tall animals with a high centre of gravity. Over as long a flight as we're talking about, they can become fatigued during that travel and would be inclined to rest in one of two ways. One would be standing on three le

Agriculture committee  I have heard some people involved in this process talk about “the” set of facts, or some people have said that there seems to be no clear science on some of these issues. The literature is filled with lots of studies, many publications, including very recent research on horses an

Agriculture committee  Good day, and thank you for the opportunity to appear before this committee. I'm here today as a veterinarian, as a horse owner and as one of the great majority of Canadians who oppose the live horse export industry. Canadian horses shipped for slaughter to Japan are deprived o