Survey Shows Few Sows in Open Housing
US - Results of a survey issued at the World Pork Expo, the annual trade show of the National Pork Producers Council, show that the overwhelming majority of the US sow herd spends some time in individual housing, known as gestation stalls. The findings confirm NPPC’s concerns about recent pronouncements by food companies that they will use only pork from operations that are gestation-stall free.
12 June 2012
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