Sentences with phrase «pig industry»

Major retailers, Coles and Woolworths have already rejected this new pig industry standard due to the great suffering caused by sow stalls and knowing that their customers would never support it.

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«The reality is that the only way that consumers will feel confident that the entire pig industry is acting on the cruelty of sow stalls is if Woolworths and other retailers follow Coles» ethical lead and commit to their pork products being sow stall free by 2014.

The Australian pig industry has also promised to phase out sow stalls (except for 11 days per gestation) by 2017.

In late 1998 and early 1999, hundreds of pig industry workers in Malaysia and 11 employees of a Singaporean slaughterhouse came down with a severe form of encephalitis that killed about 40 % of its victims.

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«If this is the best that Smithfield can do, it is evident that there are terrible problems in the nation's pig industry,» stated Wayne Pacelle, president and CEO of The HSUS.

All our supplying farms have a lower stocking density than the pig industry standard.

«Use your purchasing power to send a clear message to the pig industry and major retailers that animal welfare matters to you, and your family,» Jacobus said.

To illustrate this point, research using the United Kingdom Government data suggests that the costs of meeting the Nitrates Directive in England and Wales reduced net farm income by 2.4 percent in the poultry sector, 11.3 percent in the pig industry, 4.5 for beef and 9.6 on dairy farms86.

What the pig industry has agreed to in fact is restricting the use of sow stalls by the end of 2017 to around 10 days per pregnancy.

Rising consumer awareness during this time has led the pig industry to voluntarily restrict the use of sow stalls, and has underpinned moves by retailers to shift away from cage eggs as well as pork / bacon / ham that has been produced in facilities that confine mother pigs in sow stalls.

ATLANTA — Scientists are a step closer to understanding the origin of a virus that killed 105 people in Malaysia last year and destroyed the country's pig industry.

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