Iowa Select Farms is continuing to refine what animal care should be, and is embedding a philosophy of caring for animals throughout all facets of production.
As the U.S. pork industry faces mounting pressure to abandon gestation stalls, we decided to take a closer look at how sows perform in three common housing alternatives — stalls, pens and pens with electronic sow feeding (ESF)....More
In light of this week’s undercover video of a Wyoming pig farm by the Humane Society of the United States, the Ohio Pork Producers Council (OPPC) is advising U.S. pork producers to be thinking about the activities that take place on their farms.
“Are you doing all that you can do to assure you and your employees are abiding by the We Care ethical principles?” asks the OPPC Web site....More
The Animal Care Review Panel, a panel of animal well-being experts created to analyze undercover video investigations at livestock farms, calls animal mistreatment seen in a recently released case from a Wyoming hog farm “unacceptable and indefensible.” The Center for Food Integrity (CFI) created the panel of animal well-being experts to examine video and provide their expertise for food retailers, the pork industry and the media....More
National Pork Producers Council (NPPC) President R. C. Hunt has issued the following statement regarding Safeway’s recent decision to develop a gestation stall-free supply chain:
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The National Pork Producers Council (NPPC) has issued the following statement on the latest hidden pig video:
“Undercover video from a Wyoming hog farm released today by an animal rights group shows practices that are abhorrent to U.S. pork producers. The National Pork Producers Council condemns such actions, which are not in accord with the U.S. pork industry’s best practices that are exemplified in its Pork Quality Assurance Plus program....More
The Center for Food Integrity has created an Animal Care Review Panel to provide a balanced analysis of a hidden camera video investigation at a hog farm in Wyoming that was released this morning by the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS).
The panel is comprised of a veterinarian, an ethicist and an animal scientist. Members include:...More
Safeway, Inc., the second-largest grocery chain, has announced today it will begin formulating plans to have pork suppliers provide product from gestation stall-free housing.
For several years, the Pleasanton, CA, firm says it has substantially increased the quantity of pork it buys from producers who have made commitments to decrease the use of gestation stall housing in their breeding barns....More
The Federation of Animal Science Societies Scientific Advisory Committee on Animal Care and the American Veterinary Medical Association will be presenting a gestation sow housing webinar on May 11 from 1:00-2:30 p.m. (central standard time). This will be the first in a series of webinars on current and emerging trends in animal welfare....More
With around 240 days to go until the Jan. 1, 2013 partial ban on sow stalls (gestation) in the European Union (EU), pork producers there face the daunting prospect of a major blow to their livelihood.
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Domino’s Pizza shareholders Wednesday overwhelmingly rejected a request to study ending the use of pork from suppliers who confine pregnant pigs in crates, according to www.AnnArbor.com....More
