NPPC: Animal-Rights Group Not Telling Truth About Animal Care

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NPPC: Animal-Rights Group Not Telling Truth About Animal Care

19 July 2012

US - Providing humane and compassionate care for their pigs at every stage of life is one of the ethical principles followed by America’s family hog farmers, who know better than anyone what’s best for their animals, says the National Pork Producers Council.

According to NPPC, the undercover video from a Minnesota hog farm released on 18 July is from an animal rights group that, along with the Humane Society of the United States, has as a goal ending food-animal production in this country. Both groups repeatedly have grossly misrepresented what is shown in such videos and not told the truth about how farmers raise and care for their animals.

Such groups have used videos, including the one today, in an attempt to link alleged abuse to the use of gestation stalls for sows. Such housing systems, which allow hog farmers to provide the best care to sows, have nothing to do with abuse, says NPPC.

NPPC reports that the video released does not show abuse of animals. An independent panel comprised of animal-care experts who reviewed the video agreed, concluding that the “there were no signs of animal cruelty, abuse or neglect. The sows were clean, free of lesions, calm and in good condition.”