Animals Beyond Borders is an annual fundraiser for Toronto Pig Save! Now in it’s 8th year, this is an evening of captivating speakers, music, delicious vegan food, silent auction, networking, and more! This year’s Keynote Speaker: Jenny McQueen – who is currently on trial for exposing an Ontario pig… Read More
Know someone you want to nominate for the Animal Advocacy Profile? Tell us about someone in the community doing inspiring work for animals. Photo care of Susan Morris Toronto Pig Save: Giving Slaughterhouses Windows Care of Anita Kranjc Nobel laureate John Coetzee has his protagonist in the self-titled novel, Elizabeth Costello, give a university lecture on “The Philosophers and the Animals.” She tells her audience: “‘I was taken on a drive around Waltham this morning. It seems a pleasant enough town. I saw no horrors, no drug-testing laboratories, no factory farms, no abattoirs. Yet I am sure they are here. They must be. They simply do not advertise themselves. They are all around us as I speak, only we do not, in a certain sense, know about them.” The slaughterhouses are here in Toronto, too – downtown and in the outskirts. Art by Sue Coe Quality Meat Packers (QMP) is located in the downtown core, off King and Bathurst, at 2 Tecumseh. You get a good panoramic view of the colossal QMP industrial complex if you stand on the hills of Fort York and direct your gaze across the railway lines. Walking with… Read More
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