ConAgra Foods has become the latest US company to announce that it is banning the use of sow stalls in its pork supply chain. The company, which has net sales totally more than $13bn, said in a ...

Canada’s eight largest supermarket chains have made a commitment to phase out sow gestation stalls over the next nine years. In an agreement announced by the Retail Council of Canada (RCC), retailers ...

The Australian pork industry says 60 per cent of producers are now 'sow stall free'. Sow stalls confine a pregnant pig in a small space for the duration of the pregnancy. The production technique ...

The Humane Society of the United States is almost single-handedly changing the way farmers feed America’s appetite for bacon, ribs, holiday hams and other pork products. Under pressure from the animal ...

In this March 3, 2014 photo sows at Fair Oaks Farms in Fair Oaks, Ind., lay in nesting boxes, left, inside a larger group pen, while another eats inside an electronic feeding stall, right. Animal ...

Hopes are high for an end to sow stalls, following the despatch of more than 64,000 submissions to the Minister of Agriculture, calling for a total ban. The submissions resulted from the anti-sow ...

The use of sow stalls on New Zealand pig farms is to be limited to four weeks after mating in 2012, and banned by the end of 2015, following controversy over the practice. Agriculture Minister David ...

Danish pig producers have announced they are confident of being ready in time for the EU’s partial ban on the use of sow stalls. According to the latest estimates from Denmark, the industry claims ...

Only 13 EU countries are compliant with the EU sow stall ban, despite it coming into force almost eight months ago, the UK’s National Pig Association (NPA) has revealed. New data from the European ...