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Bruce Cattle Buyer Challenges CTV Livestock Transport Story

A Bruce County cattle buyer says he wishes CTV News had made more of an effort to talk to livestock truckers before airing last night’s report.

The story suggested livestock was being abused by being transported for long periods of time without food or water.

It included a number of quotes from animal rights and humane society officials.

Ken Schaus says he doesn’t know where they came up with some of the numbers used in the report for livestock deaths in transit.

He says of the almost 20 thousand cattle he brought in from Western Canada last year, he only had one die.

Three others were injured.

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