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Areas of Routine Violations (cont'd)
If these same overloaded crates also happen to be broken, birds are at a high risk of falling from them,
often onto a busy highway where they may be hit by oncoming traffic.
Three chickens pushed from crates
about to be run over by trailer
Olymel
Berthierville, Quebec
2007
Chicken being pushed out of overloaded, broken crate
DunnRite Foods
Winnipeg, Manitoba
2008
Violations
Federal Health of Animals Act
Part XII Transportation of Animals
Overcrowding
Prohibition of Overcrowding
140.(1) "No person shall load or cause to be loaded any animal in any railway car, motor vehicle, aircraft, vessel,
crate or container if, by so loading, that railway car, motor vehicle, aircraft, vessel, crate or container is crowded to
such an extent as to be likely to cause injury or undue suffering to any animal therein
140.(2) "No person shall transport or cause to be transported any animal in any railway car, motor vehicle,
aircraft, vessel, crate or container that is crowded to such an extent as to be likely to cause injury or undue
suffering to any animal therein."
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