The use of stall housing for gestating\u00a0sows has come under criticism for being\u00a0too restrictive and failing to provide\u00a0adequately for the welfare of sows. From 1st\u00a0January 2013, a legislated ban was implemented\u00a0in the EU, banning the use of sow stalls from 28\u00a0days post breeding. In 2007, the largest pork\u00a0producers in the USA and Canada pledged to\u00a0transition their sow housing to group systems\u00a0over the next 10 years. Now, increasing numbers\u00a0of food retailers, including Tim Hortons, Burger\u00a0King and McDonalds, have pledged to source\u00a0pork from producers who have developed plans\u00a0for conversion to group housing. In addition the
\nsupermarket chains Safeway and Costco recently\u00a0announced plans to develop a stall-free pork\u00a0supply chain. Consequently, the Canadian pork\u00a0industry is under increasing pressure to convert\u00a0existing gestation stall housing for its 1.3 million\u00a0sows to group systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The use of stall housing for gestating\u00a0sows has come under criticism for being\u00a0too restrictive and failing to provide\u00a0adequately for the welfare of sows. From 1st\u00a0January 2013, a legislated ban was implemented\u00a0in the EU, banning the use of sow stalls from 28\u00a0days post breeding. In 2007, the largest pork\u00a0producers in the USA and Canada pledged to\u00a0transition […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,931,928],"tags":[640,2349,25121,24064,102,109,47,26132,9053,26257,26119,15459,104,7599,24724,25123,10174,96,24994,6053,27281],"class_list":["post-14445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pork-insight-articles","category-prairie-swine-centre","category-welfare","tag-animal","tag-breed","tag-chain","tag-electronic-sow-feeding-careers","tag-gestation","tag-group-housing","tag-housing","tag-jan","tag-leg","tag-national-sow-housing-conversion","tag-national-sow-housing-conversion-project","tag-ped","tag-sow","tag-sow-housing","tag-sow-housing-project-prairie-swine-centre","tag-sow-prairie-swine-centre","tag-sow-stall","tag-sows","tag-usa","tag-use","tag-welfare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14445"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14447,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14445\/revisions\/14447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}