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January 10, 2021 - Forbes

What A Delay On Canada's Gestation Crate Ban Will Mean For Pig Welfare

In 2014, Canada’s pork industry vowed to end their use of gestation crates—individual pens in which pregnant pigs are confined—by 2024. Now, industry stakeholders are proposing a five-year extension that will push the phaseout to 2029. According to animal welfare experts, the new timeline would mean massive suffering for millions of pigs.

A gestation crate is a metal enclosure that measures 2 feet wide by nearly 7 feet long. That’s “a little bit longer than the length of a pig and a little bit wider than the width of a pig, so the pig in the crate can’t turn around,” says Ian Duncan, an emeritus professor of animal welfare science at the University of Guelph in Ontario.

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