Police have arrested Anita Kranjc, 49, of Toronto,
charging her with obstruction of police and workers trying to corral pigs that
spilled from a transport that over-turned near the Fearman’s Pork plant in
Burlington.
Kranjc was already facing mischief charges, laid by a
hog farmer, for offering water to pigs that a trucker was delivering to the
now-closed Quality Packers hog slaughtering plant in Toronto.
She was testifying in a Toronto courtroom on that
charge on Monday, but was at the accident scene in Burlington on Wednesday.
After the rollover, in which the 25-year-old driver
suffered minor injuries, workers were trying to shepherd the hogs that survived
the crash into the packing plant. About 40 of the 180 pigs died in the crash.
Kranjc and several other protestors shouted at them,
accusing them of harming the pigs. They allegedly crossed a caution tape police
had set up at the site.
Halton police say that other than Kranjc’s arrest, the
rest of the demonstration was "largely peaceful."
The next court date for her original charges is in
November.
The truck carrying the pigs lost control and flipped
over just after 7 a.m. Wednesday at the corner of Appleby Line
and Harvester Road and near Fearmans.
Maybe Kranjc hopes to become a high-profile martyr.
