{"id":2651,"date":"2010-04-15T12:47:23","date_gmt":"2010-04-15T17:47:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=2651"},"modified":"2010-04-15T12:47:23","modified_gmt":"2010-04-15T17:47:23","slug":"new-book-outlines-canada%e2%80%99s-shameful-animal-rights-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2010\/04\/new-book-outlines-canada%e2%80%99s-shameful-animal-rights-record\/","title":{"rendered":"New book outlines Canada\u2019s shameful animal rights record"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2652\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2652\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2652 \" title=\"John Sorenson\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/sorensonanimalrights.jpg\" alt=\"Professor John Sorenson poses with his two recent books, About Canada: Animal Rights and Ape.\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2652\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Professor John Sorenson poses with his two recent books, About Canada: Animal Rights and Ape.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Canadians pride themselves on being nice, but the country is a moral contradiction when it comes to animal rights, says a Brock University professor in a new book released this week.<\/p>\n<p>More than half of Canadians have pets. Some churches conduct an annual \u201cblessing of the animals.\u201d But when it comes to animal rights, Canada is in the dark ages compared to some other countries, says John Sorenson, chair of Sociology at Brock, in his book <em>About Canada: Animal Rights<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGandhi is quoted as saying \u2018The greatness of a nation can be judged by how it treats animals,\u2019\u201d he said. \u201cThen we look at how animals are really being treated in Canada. In comparison to 10 other countries, we come out at the bottom of the pile.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sorenson, one of the country\u2019s foremost experts in Critical Animal Studies, argues that Canadians are opportunists who profit from advanced legislation passed in other countries. He points out that while the U.S. has banned the practice of slaughtering horses, in Canada, 112,887 horses were slaughtered in 2008 for uses like pet food, fertilizer and glue. This is supported by Agriculture Canada.<\/p>\n<p>Sorenson cites other examples of animal exploitation such as factory farming, the fur trade, sport hunting, puppy mills and a lax Canadian Council on Animal Care code of ethics that issues a \u201cblank cheque\u201d to vivisectors.<\/p>\n<p><em>About Canada: Animal Rights<\/em> was launched this week. It is published by Fernwood Publishing.<\/p>\n<p>Quick links:<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fernwoodpublishing.ca\/About-Canada-Animal-Rights-John-Sorenson\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>About Canada: Animal Rights<\/em> | Fernwood Publishing<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/social-sciences\/graduate-programs\/critical-sociology\/faculty\/dr-john-sorenson\" target=\"_blank\">Dr. John Sorenson | Brock University<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canadians pride themselves on being nice, but the country is a moral contradiction when it comes to animal rights, says Critical Animal Studies expert John Sorenson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2652,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,1],"tags":[33],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2651"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2651"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2654,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2651\/revisions\/2654"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}