AUSTRALIAN PIG FARMERS ON THE PATH TO SOW STALL ‘FREE’ PORK
January 1st, 2014
MEAT industry association Australian Pork Limited (APL) has told globalmeatnews.com that Australian piggeries are well on the way to an almost total elimination of sow gestation stalls by 2017. It says that an estimated 65% of pigmeat enterprises in 2014 are already phasing out using cages to restrict a sow’s movements during pregnancy.The voluntary adoption of the policy by the pork industry has been driven by demands from the Australian supermarket duopoly of Coles and Woolworths, with Coles particularly an outspoken supporter of the elimination of sow ...
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