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Manitoba Has The Opportunity To Lead On Animal Welfare

By Lynn Kavanagh February 24, 2011

The animal agriculture industry is fond of telling the public their animals are well cared for. It’s often said that a picture is worth a thousand words, so when the public is presented with an image of a sow confined to a metal-barred gestation crate barely larger than her body and told that this is

Hogs, Livestock

Eliminating The Weaning-To-Mating Interval

January 6, 2011

Bernie Peet is president of Pork Chain Consulting Ltd. of Lacombe, Alberta, and editor of Western Hog Journal. His columns will run every second week in the Manitoba Co-operator. Arecent roadshow in Western Australia, organized by the Pork Co-operative Research Centre (CRC), based at the University of Adelaide, featured a presentation by Dr. Jeff Downing

Hogs, Livestock

Smithfield Foods Accused Of Abusing Pigs

December 23, 2010

The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) has accused Smithfield Foods Inc., the world’s largest pork producer, of inhumane treatment of pigs and piglets, releasing a video documenting what the group said were cruel practices. The society said that it documented mistreatment of the animals after a month-long investigation at a Waverly, Virginia, facility

Hogs, Livestock

Clock Ticking On Open Sow Housing Decisions

By Ron Friesen December 16, 2010

Awatershed in sow housing is coming to Manitoba in the next five years and pork producers are unprepared, says a University of Manitoba swine specialist. Many hog barns will soon have to retool their aging equipment, including gestation stalls, said Laurie Connor, who heads the University of Manitoba’s animal science department. Producers need to decide

Hogs, Livestock, News

Stall-Free Petition Tops 10,000 Signatures

By Ron Friesen December 2, 2010

Bill McDonald hauled a garbage bag half full of paper into the deputy agriculture minister’s office last week to press his case against sow gestation stalls in Manitoba. The bag contained petitions carrying over 10,000 signatures demanding the province pass laws to eliminate the stalls. “We thought it was significant to show the government physically

Hogs, Livestock

Australian Retailer Bans Pork From Sow Stalls

By Ron Friesen November 18, 2010

Canada’s pork producers are scrambling to learn more about a major Australian grocery chain’s decision to ban pork from countries that use sow gestation crates. Coles Supermarkets said last week all its imported pork products, including processed ham and bacon, will have to be from pigs raised without the use of sow stalls. Gary Stordy,

Hogs, Livestock, Opinion

So-Called “Activists” Are Actually Realists

June 10, 2010

My name is Dr. Kees Scheepens, pig veterinarian and pig farmer from the Netherlands. I was in Manitoba March 25 to give a talk at the University of Manitoba on the phasing out of gestation crates. Now I am sent the article “Animal Welfare Activists Target Pig Castration,” which published in the March 25 issue

Hogs, Livestock, News

Gestation Stalls Could Become Canada-U. S. Trade Issue

By Ron Friesen April 15, 2010

“Do you think they will be friendly to product coming in that’s produced in a different manner?” – ED PAJOR Canada may eventually have to ban gestation stalls for pregnant sows if it wants to continue exporting to the United States, where such bans are occurring. A leading Canadian animal welfare scientist warns the spread

Livestock

Loose Sow Housing No Panacea, Producers Say

By Ron Friesen April 8, 2010

“Removing a crate from the barn has a huge ripple effect.” – MARG REMPEL, STE. ANNE PRODUCER Mention activists who oppose sow gestation stalls and Marg Rempel gets so frustrated she can hardly talk. It isn’t just anti-stall people who upset her. It’s their lack of knowledge about what eliminating gestation crates would really mean

Livestock, Opinion

Industry Should Lead Change Not Balk At It

By Leslie Yeoman February 18, 2010

I personally believe that North Americans will never stop eating their burgers or bacon and eggs. This means the only remedy is to improve living-dying conditions for the animals in our food chain. Iwas born and raised in the city and am exactly the Public mentioned in the Feb. 11 article “Some advice for the

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Tag Archives Gestation crate

Manitoba Has The Opportunity To Lead On Animal Welfare

Eliminating The Weaning-To-Mating Interval

Smithfield Foods Accused Of Abusing Pigs

Clock Ticking On Open Sow Housing Decisions

Stall-Free Petition Tops 10,000 Signatures

Australian Retailer Bans Pork From Sow Stalls

So-Called “Activists” Are Actually Realists

Gestation Stalls Could Become Canada-U. S. Trade Issue

Loose Sow Housing No Panacea, Producers Say

Industry Should Lead Change Not Balk At It

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