I spoke yesterday with Craig Naherniak, director of Humane Education with the BCSPA, and the Head Office person in charge of the Paws For a Cause Walk-a-Thon.

Mr. Naherniak told me that the Walk-a-Thons at each branch are run by volunteers, and the SPCA does not want to tell them what to do re: the serving of meat.

I clarified that Head Office has the power to simply contact each branch and tell them not to serve meat, and he agreed that they have that power, but will not use it, since the SPCA is not an organization that opposes the eating of meat.

He went on to say that he would hope that the meat served would be raised by SPCA Certified farms.

I asked if he thought that the meat served at all the various barbecues had been raised under these conditions (as opposed to factory farmed animals), and he said no, but that was only because there aren't enough farms in the province using these more humane practices.

I asked him why the SPCA did not then, at least, prohibit the selling of factory farmed meat at their fund-raisers, and essentially then all he could do was repeat that the SPCA is "moving in that direction," and it is his hope, that, sometime in the future (have I heard that before?)
the SPCA will either have only SPCA Certified meats, or vegetarian food only at their fund-raisers (fund raisers FOR the animals, I must repeat).

So it remains that the BC SPCA (the Board of Directors and the CEO) HAS the power to prohibit the selling of factory farmed meat, or any meat, come to that, but they will not use that power.

The suffering goes on.