date:Apr 27, 2012
proud to announce these new, industry-leading commitments that support meaningful standards of humane treatment in our US supply chain.
Since the beginning of 2012, major US food companies, including Hormel and Smithfield, have announced their intention to make the transition towards group pens for sows, a voluntary move modelled on the sow stall ban due to be implemented in the EU in January 2013.
The Australian pork industry is also heading in that direction, aiming to phase out gestation crat