Krista Hiddema
About Krista Hiddema
Krista Hiddema is vice-president of Mercy for Animals in Canada, an NGO dedicated to preventing cruelty to farmed animals, and promoting compassionate food choices and policies. She and her husband, Nigel, share their home with their rescued companion animals, Pitou, Smurfette, Blue, Honey, Spice, Chip, and Dale.
Your tax money is helping keep baby cows in cruel crates
The new care codes prohibit tethers and mandate that calves be kept in groups after eight weeks of age, but there is no protection from the moment of their birth until then.
Dinner time? Leave the fish off your plate
Krista Hiddema, the vice-president of Mercy for Animals in Canada, unpacks the environmental implications of fish farming and what you might be getting a piece of when you eat fish.
Your favourite Canadian grocery store could be stocking abused chickens
This is not a case of a few bad apples—this is a rotting tree, writes Krista Hiddema, Mercy For Animals vice-president in Canada.
Beaten with chains, hung by the neck: Dairy cows left behind by the law
You may want to think twice about the ice cream in your freezer and where it came from.