Rat Lawyer: not just a pejorative anymore.
A retired Toronto lawyer has gone to court in a bid to secure the right for advocates to speak up on behalf of animals in legal settings.
The case began earlier this year when Sandra Schnurr filed a notice of application against five retail giants selling glue traps, or devices commonly used to catch rodents.
Schnurr argued that the traps subject mice and rats to agonizing, prolonged deaths and filed an application seeking to ban Canadian Tire, Walmart, Home Depot, Home Hardware and Lowe’s from selling them.
The retailers, in turn, filed a motion to dismiss Schnurr’s complaint on the grounds that she did not have standing to bring such a matter before the courts.
But Schnurr argued that the rules surrounding who has the right to speak on various legal issues have been relaxing and animal rights advocates should be permitted a voice in Canada’s courtrooms.
The issue of standing was argued before Ontario Superior Court Justice Lorne Sossin last week and should be decided in the coming months.
I know it sounds funny, but it’s not. It’s part of a multi-front assault on agriculture. From the war on meat to the war on animal sport to the war on animal husbandry to the war on herbicides, left wing activism is doing to agriculture what they’re done to energy.
Where are our Ag Ministers and why aren’t they writing legislation that forcefully punts these camel nose cases out of the tent before they’re filed?
h/t Buddy
“…It’s part of a multi-front assault on agriculture….Where are our Ag Ministers and why aren’t they writing legislation that forcefully punts these camel nose cases out of the tent before they’re filed? ”
Our Ag Ministers? Oh, they’re laughin’ and scratchin’ with the leaders of the Farm and Livestock Associations, doing what they’ve been doing for decades: blatantly selling rural Canada out. But the farmers and cattlemen seem fine with it.
So shrug…..
What a country!!!
Oldtimer64, let me fix that for you – “What country!!!”
yet again, the legalists trample over each other seeking ever more complex and intricate interpretations of . . . of . . . . . . . . . . .
‘the law is the law is the law is the law’.
with the objective and motive of getting a precedent set in their esteemed learned name.
soooo busy they are they forget that on occasion it BLOWS UP IN THEIR FACE.
Its a multi pronged attack not only on agriculture and farming, but pet owning, and meat eating. There are eggless eggs now! WTF is that?
Nobody is an advocate of torturing animals but somebody who is ultra concerned about mice and rats is an enemy of normalcy.
And they wouldn’t be so bloody plentiful if it wasn’t for human habitation to begin with.
“attack not only on agriculture and farming, but pet owning, and meat eating. ”
Demolition Man (1993) – Rat Burger Scene https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wdld7SqnIxE
The whole comedic action movie, Demolition Man, fairly encompasses where the Left is trying to drag us all to.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/tim-hortons-a-w-beyond-meat-egg-plant-based-1.5227188
“Tim Hortons is testing the fake omelette — made with mung bean protein isolate”
In the parking lot of those two test restaurants, blue angel contests have become quite popular.
Buddy said,”somebody who is ultra concerned about mice and rats “, most lawyers and politicians would be concerned, because self preservation!!!
Now could we git andy McScheep’s reading on this file?
In this case, I agree. I don’t like to see rodents suffer a prolonged death of starvation in a glue trap. I agree that a new Law needs to be enacted that places a time limit on the rodent death, after it has been caught in a glue trap … say 8 hours. Therefore, within 8-hours of setting my glue traps, I am obligated to inspect the traps and smash the rodent to death with the broad side of my shovel with a full overhead windup. It might be a little messy as rodent bits are splattered on the walls of your barn … but, hey! It will be an instantaneous (humane) death! So long as your aim is true.
Thanks animal lawyers! Now I feeeeeeeel so much better about thinning the rodent population on my farm and home.
Next!? Is it humane to flush the barely-alive goldfish (that your kid won at the carnival) down the toilet? Or should the goldfish be smashed to death with a sledge hammer!? The courts will decide.
I agree with the issues surrounding the suffering caused by glue traps. Reasonable monitoring periods such as yours should be required.
The way this clown is going about it doesn’t help anyone who is serious about the issue.
“Speaker for Rodents”?
Next we will hear from the lawyer speaking on behalf of “Boulders that do not want to be gravel”.
Followed by the lawyer for free running water that feels confined by hydro dams…
We have already heard from the lawyers for planet earth with only 14 months to live..
What was that Jackson Brown Song?
What these righteous morons seem to miss is “Long Pig” is already back on the menu in parts of Africa and some American Cities.
By screwing up the food chain,they may just get added to it.
Naturally vegetarians first.
Humans are so adaptable.
The Monsanto judgement was particularly egregious and the plaintiff relied on absolute scientistic nonsense. RoundUp Ready does NOT cause cancer, period.
Re rats: should probably be more concerned about poison-immune rats that can’t be killed. Roaches too.
And for the same reason.
Canada’s farmers are to be foreclosed on and their farms sold for a song to Chinese agribusinesses so little emperors can have pork chops for breakfast, while the white devils are forced to catch rats for meat.
China has spent most of her history one bad harvest from mass starvation. Chinamen dream of the happy day when they will all be so fat they can’t move—and will each have six hairy barbarian slaves to carry them everywhere, and glad to do it for the scraps that fall off their masters’ tables.
And yet these same clowns are pro-abortion. Cognitive dissonance much?
“Where are our Ag Ministers and why aren’t they writing legislation that forcefully punts these camel nose cases out of the tent before they’re filed?”
So, how is that faith in government working out for you?