The related incident occurred on June 22, 2015, outside Fearman's Pork Inc. slaughterhouse Krajnc and her group were providing water to pigs in trucks transporting them to
slaughter, as they stopped at a traffic island at the intersection of Appleby Line and Harvester Road, through the vents on the sides of the truck. As they were doing so, a driver of one of the trucks, got down and went to her and asked her to stop. Krajnc recited a verse from the biblical
Book of Proverbs: "If they are thirsty, give them water". In response the driver told her that the pigs weren't human. Krajnc asked the driver to be compassionate; he said he would call the police, Krajnc suggested that she would call Jesus. The driver then walked away, boarded the truck and drove on. This interaction was filmed by Krajnc's associates. On June 23, 2015, Eric van Boekel, from whose farm the pigs were brought, filed a case against Krajnc. On September 9, 2015, Krajnc was charged with criminal mischief, the penalty for which ranges from a fine to 10 years in prison. In response, the group arranged a vigil on September 24. On October 14, 2015, Krajnc appeared in court for an arraignment, to have charges read to her. 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. Krajnc has said that she would refuse to pay any fine and that she was willing to suffer imprisonment. The driver of the truck stated that though the activists were entitled to protest, his objection was to them interfering with his delivery and touching his truck (which may jeopardise the protester's own safety). He considers the charges justifiable. He said that the pigs were loaded an hour before the incident and argued that it was unlikely they were dehydrated.
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". == Trial ==