{"id":14747,"date":"2012-08-01T10:20:59","date_gmt":"2012-08-01T16:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/?p=14747"},"modified":"2013-08-01T10:27:32","modified_gmt":"2013-08-01T16:27:32","slug":"the-national-sow-housing-conversion-project-initial-pilot-and-demonstrations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/the-national-sow-housing-conversion-project-initial-pilot-and-demonstrations\/","title":{"rendered":"The National Sow Housing Conversion Project: initial pilot and demonstrations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The use of stall housing for gestating<br \/>\nsows has come under criticism for being<br \/>\ntoo restrictive and failing to provide<br \/>\nadequately for the welfare of sows. From 1st<br \/>\nJanuary 2013, a legislated ban was implemented<br \/>\nin the EU, banning the use of sow stalls from 28<br \/>\ndays post breeding. In 2007, the largest pork<br \/>\nproducers in the USA and Canada pledged to<br \/>\ntransition their sow housing to group systems<br \/>\nover the next 10 years. Now, increasing numbers<br \/>\nof food retailers, including Tim Hortons, Burger<br \/>\nKing and McDonalds, have pledged to source<br \/>\npork from producers who have developed plans<br \/>\nfor conversion to group housing. In addition the<br \/>\nsupermarket chains Safeway and Costco recently<br \/>\nannounced plans to develop a stall-free pork<br \/>\nsupply chain. Consequently, the Canadian pork<br \/>\nindustry is under increasing pressure to convert<br \/>\nexisting gestation stall housing for its 1.3 million<br \/>\nsows to group systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The use of stall housing for gestating sows has come under criticism for being too restrictive and failing to provide adequately for the welfare of sows. From 1st January 2013, a legislated ban was implemented in the EU, banning the use of sow stalls from 28 days post breeding. In 2007, the largest pork producers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,930],"tags":[2349,102,109,47,26132,26257,26119,104,10174,25508,27281],"class_list":["post-14747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pork-insight-articles","category-production","tag-breed","tag-gestation","tag-group-housing","tag-housing","tag-jan","tag-national-sow-housing-conversion","tag-national-sow-housing-conversion-project","tag-sow","tag-sow-stall","tag-the-national-sow-housing-conversion-project-initial-pilot-and-demonstrations","tag-welfare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14747","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=14747"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14750,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14747\/revisions\/14750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}