Anita Krajnc case

[4] Her doctoral thesis was based on the role of scientific knowledge and public education in building international environmental regimes.

[1][14] In the context of the case The Daily Telegraph reports that under Canadian law pigs are considered property and can be transported without food and water for 36 hours.

Metro printed a rebuttal from Bob Comis, a former breeder who stated that the pigs as seen in a video of the incident showed symptoms of "severe heat stress".

Krajnc has stated that treating living animals such as pigs as property – "no different than a toaster" – is the focal issue of the matter and that being compassionate to them should not be considered criminal.

But he chastised the defence team for making attention-grabbing statements comparing Krajnc to Mandela, Gandhi, Susan B. Anthony, and those who had helped Jews during the Holocaust.

[18] Several online petitions sprung up including one called Compassion Isn't a Crime that had 125,500 signatures, and another asking the Ontario Court of Justice to drop charges against Krajnc had over 24,000.

[15] On October 4, 2016, Krajnc was arrested on charges of obstructing police and breaching her bail conditions for the 2015 incident, after a truck heading to the slaughterhouse overturned.

[21] In June 2020, Regan Russell was killed by an animal transport truck while attending one of Krajnc's Toronto Pig Save protests at the same slaughterhouse.