The head of Quebec's pork-producing group says about 130,000 pigs were ready for slaughter last week but some were instead transported to Alberta and the United States.

An animal rights activist testified Monday that she "was just following the golden rule" when she gave pigs en route to slaughter a drink of water on a hot day last year.

An Ontario court has heard that pigs given cool water on a hot day en route to slaughter couldn’t alter their destiny, and became part of the food chain despite an animal rights activist’s efforts to draw attention to their parched plight.