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Certification and training for livestock transport

The federal government is giving $320,000 to the Alberta Farm Animal Care Association to help develop a certification program that will lead to training for livestock and poultry transporters. The support is for an industry-led initiative to develop national standards for the safe and humane transport of farm animals to help address public concerns and
Hogs, Livestock, News

Time to start thinking about group sow housing

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With a phase-out of sow stalls almost inevitable, producers need to start evaluating different systems

When the new Code of Practice for the Care and Handling of Pigs is published in draft form this summer, it will very likely include a requirement that sow stalls be phased out over a period of time. Producers will be able to house sows in stalls for a period after breeding, in order to
Crops, Dairy cattle, Livestock, News, Oilseeds

Plant product to go toe to toe with meat and dairy?

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A researcher says the global food problem is not feeding people, but animals Livestock agriculture is an obsolete technology, says Stanford researcher, Patrick O. Brown. “Animal farming is by far the biggest ongoing global environmental catastrophe,” says Brown. “It’s an inefficient technology that hasn’t changed for a millennia.” In a presentation to the American Association
International news, Livestock, News

Australia to probe new Indonesia cattle cruelty video

Canberra / Reuters / Australia will investigate new video appearing to show cattle being mistreated at an Indonesian abattoir, and could reimpose an export ban on the slaughterhouse if it broke animal welfare rules, said Agriculture Minister Joe Ludwig. Australia suspended live cattle exports to Indonesia for a month in 2011 after a video showing cows
Hogs, Livestock, News, Opinion

The economics of animal welfare

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Back in the early 1990s, when University of Manitoba animal scientist Laurie Connor first oversaw local research into hoop-housing systems for hogs, animal welfare wasn’t really even on the public radar. The key questions of the day were whether keeping pigs outdoors through a Prairie winter compromised production efficiency. Connor told a seminar last week
Hogs, Livestock, News

Stall-free pork coming to McDonald’s menu

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Amove by fast-food giant McDonald’s to have its U.S. pork suppliers phase out sow gestation stalls has drawn praise from animal rights groups, but questions remain about the impact it will have on Canadian producers. “This is huge. That a major corporation has made this move is really very significant,” said Winnipeg Humane Society CEO
Hogs, Livestock, News

Third-largest U.S. hogproducer accused of abuse

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The humane society has accused two of the largest American pork producers of abuse by confining sows in cages during pregnancy. In a video on the humane society website, sows can be seen chewing the metal bars of their gestation crates and struggling to stand up. Some are scratched, bleeding or even dead. “When it
Country Crossroads

Doing it right on the trapline

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About 25 would-be trappers young and old were on hand at the local Legion Hall for a hands-on trapper education course last week. In one corner, two men were busy learning how to flesh beaver pelts over their knees with a sharp knife, and on display on long tables were tools of the trade, from
International news, Livestock, News, Poultry

Germany to seek EU animal welfare label on meat

Germany will press the European Union to introduce a label on meat saying it came from humanely raised farm animals, said German Agriculture Minister Ilse Aigner. The move would be part of a new German government program to improve farm animal welfare, she said. “Transparency changes buying behaviour and then the production processes and manufacturing

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