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For several years, muslims were celebrating the Eid al-Adha, the festival of the sheep, on the site of the farm BSC, located in The Future, in the Centre-du-Québec.

Yanick Fish

Monday, 16 October, 2017 22:22

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Monday, 16 October, 2017 22:22

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The FUTURE | the Two leaders of a firm accused of having allowed the illegal killing of sheep, in particular by removing the skin of some of them before they are dead, will still be able to benefit from the money from the sale of the beasts still alive.

Jonathan Bélanger-Cloutier and her father, Michel Cloutier, of the firm BSC, are waiting for a judgment with respect to 17 counts of offences alleged to have been committed within the framework of the Eid al-Adha (also called feast of the sheep), that they held each year for the muslim population.

Two inspectors and a veterinarian from the ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food of Quebec (MAPAQ) have been dispatched to the land of the agricultural enterprise of The Future, near Drummondville, on 12 September 2016. They found that not only BSC proceeded to slaughter without a permit, but that fallers used a technique that made the suffering of the animal, according to them.

“It appears that poor technique does not allow a death prompt, because the cutting of the carotid arteries and jugular veins does not occur on both sides or is incomplete, despite several attempts. […] For some of the beasts, the procedure of wrapping is started while they are not yet dead, and that it uses air from a compressor to inflate the animal to facilitate the removal of the skin “, one can read in a judgment of judge Paul Dunnigan of the Court of Québec.

The vet of the MAPAQ Eduardo Camacho Rugeles asked the owners to stop these activities, but they would not have complied. They would have still shot and killed the animals the next day.

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Investigators seized on the spot 83 sheep. The judge Dunnigan has allowed the government to sell it to pay for the costs of treatment and care of the animals, which amounted to $ 66 547,17 $.

It is therefore a debt erase for the two accused.

Beyond the killing, the judge Dunnigan has given reason to the inspectors for the MAPAQ, which had considered it necessary to proceed to the seizure of the herd, considering that the beasts still alive were in a poor state.

In a report, the veterinarian Rugeles says that many of the beasts found in a paddock in the vicinity seemed to be sick or ill, some sheep walking on the knees or on three legs, others coughing.

If they are found guilty, farmers may face fines totaling $200,000.