Sentences with phrase «under animal welfare legislation»

Under animal welfare legislation farmers need to ensure sick animals receive appropriate treatment without delay.

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Ontario SPCA is mandated under the Ontario SPCA Act to enforce animal welfare legislation and the Act provides Ontario SPCA Agents and Inspectors with police powers to do so.

We soon realized, however, that despite the deplorable conditions in puppy mills and periodic exposés (even Oprah did one), legislators at the state and federal level were reluctant to pass meaningful legislation to improve the conditions of commercial breeding operations because puppy mills fall under the jurisdiction of the Department of Agriculture and their state equivalents, and dogs in puppy mills are considered to be livestock, and animal welfare of any stripe is a much harder sell in those circles than it should be, sadly.

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MAPAQ mandates a few local SPAs / SPCAs, most of them largely under - funded, to apply the animal welfare legislation in certain regions of the province.

In 2009, due to massive public outcry regarding the insufficient animal welfare standards in Quebec, the Charest government established a special task force under MAPAQ to improve legislation and enforcement in the Province.

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