07/24/2026
What Nucro-Technics does to animals at its Ellesmere Road facility is morally wrong.
Is it also illegal?
The Canadian Criminal Code s 445.1(1) prohibits inflicting “unnecessary pain, suffering or injury” on an animal.
First of all notice that no animal testing is strictly necessary; it's at most necessary for something that humans want. For example, a company wants approval for a new blood thinner, or va**ng flavor, and the government regulatory agencies require pre-market toxicity testing. In that case, the testing is necessary for getting approval for the given market.
The thing is, many toxicity tests now have alternative, often superior, Non-Animal Methods [NAMs], and agencies like the American FDA [one of the agencies NT tests for] are making it easier for products to get approval with NAMs. If Nucro-Technics is using animals where non-animal methods would suffice for market approval, then they are, by the Canadian Criminal Code, causing "unnecessary pain, suffering or injury” to dogs, rats, rabbits, et cet.
And some day soon a good judge will recognize that even if dripping corrosives into the eyes of a living animal is "necessary" for market approval, it's not necessary in the sense that counts - it's not morally necessary - and so it's convictable cruelty.
The police have been a presence at our peaceful monthly protests, mainly concerned that we stay off Nucro-Technics property. Perhaps we can encourage them to turn their focus on Nucro-Technics itself, what's going on inside.
