Special Report
Sow housing is this year’s BIG issue
Every year at World Pork Expo, a different issue seems to rise to the top of the list of pork industry concerns.
Issues such as industry structure, a lack of profitability, H1N1, antibiotics and free trade agreements have all taken their turn in the spotlight.
The big issue this year is related to sow housing.
Of course, the issues of animal welfare and animal rights have been percolating for several years now. But with several major food companies—McDonalds, Burger King, Denny’s and Kroger, just to name a few—now saying they want to eliminate gestation stalls from their pork supply chains, the sow housing issue has definitely moved front and center.
At the 2012 World Pork Expo prepared to get underway, Brownfield visited with National Pork Producers Council president R.C. Hunt of Wilson, North Carolina about the situation.
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