Animal Health and Welfare
The CCA Animal Health and Care committee continues to strive to improve our preparedness for animal health emergencies and ensure ongoing protection of beef cattle welfare across Canada. Our strategy remains as follows:
- Advocate for evidence-informed programs, policies, and regulations.
- Seek simple and sustainable solutions to complex animal-health challenges when collaborating with regulators, other domestic commodities, and our international partners.
- Continually build trust with Canada’s public, regulators, and within our supply chain by sharing and improving our animal health, care, and husbandry practices.
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Animal Health Canada
CCA fully supports the Animal Health Canada (AHC) initiative to proactively address the real threat of a foreign animal disease outbreak that would be catastrophic to the Canadian beef industry. AHC provides a formal structure for the industry-government collaboration required to successfully implement the animal health components of the Plant and Animal Health Strategy for Canada (PAHS). AHC encompasses a pan-Canadian, public-private collaboration built on the guiding principles of accountability and decision-making open to the participation of both levels of government and all animal industry sectors. AHC will undertake actions and deliver programs that achieve high standards of animal health protection and economic risk mitigation, consistent with the objectives and guiding principles of the PAHS.