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Ban Sow Stalls!
Pigs: bred, raised and slaughtered in intensive farming -- AAQ's piggery investigations uncover routine cruelty and illegal abuse in Queensland.
Intensive Piggerry Investigation unveils illegal activityPigs suffer greatly during the rearing, slaughter and transportation process to arrive on the consumer’s plate. Sows spend their pregnancies in individual sow stalls, separated from each other by metal bars. It is still legal to chain a sow to the stall by a collar around the neck or stomach. If someone kept a dog in this way they would be prosecuted for cruelty. Before giving birth, sows are moved to a smaller space called a farrowing crate. This is surrounded by metal bars to protect piglets from injury. Heavily pregnant pigs with milk-swollen udders have to lie on cold, hard concrete. They have no straw to make a nest, as they would naturally. Concrete pens and stalls are small and uncomfortable; most of the pigs' natural behaviours are prevented, leading to stress and frustration. Intensive housing is a blatant breach of the Five Freedoms. The law doesn't offer much protection to pigs, considering that it is legal to keep them in cramped stalls and to cut off part of their tail. Apart from the Animal Care and Protection Act (ACPA), there is also a Model Code of Practice for the Welfare of Animals - The Pig (2nd ed.). It is this Code that sets the legal standards. For example, the ACPA states that all animals must have exercise, but according to the Code: Adult sows, which are very large animals, can be kept in single stalls measuring only 0.6m by 2.0m. Sows can be kept in farrowing crates measuring only 0.5m by 2.0m. Growing pigs weighing 81-100kg, need to be given only 0.65sqm each of living space. Adult pigs in groups need to be given as little as 1.4sqm each to live in.  Clearly normal exercise is impossible in these confined spaces, but it is still legal to keep pigs in this way because the Code of Practice says so. The Code says: "It is desirable that permanent housing in stalls be phased out" and "Developed alternatives to the current farrowing crates should be considered", but it still allows stalls and farrowing crates. Why then do the RSPCA and DPI consistently fail to act when presented with evidence of breaches by piggery farmers?Animal Activism QLD exposed breaches at Doug Hall’s piggery and poultry farm in 2001. The evidence was submitted to the DPI and RSPCA to date we understand that the RSPCA have not followed up on the evidence of cruelty submitted to them regarding pigs (despite the RSPCA being the main legal authority for enforcing the Animal Care and Protection Act 2001). Conditions at Doug Hall’s piggeries consistently fall below required standards and reports of this have been ignored by the RSPCA. It is alarming to see that Gatton University also breach basic animal welfare standards. This reflects the standard of animal protection in this state and the fact that QLD farmers are a law unto themselves as animal protection groups like the RSPCA consistently turn away from evidence of blatant breaches of animal management practice of QLD farmers. More information: http://www.animalsaustralia.org/default2.asp?idL1=1273&idL2=1287 How YOU can helpPlease sign the online action campaign at:http://www.savebabe.com/take-action/takeAction.html Inside “Ban Sow Stalls!”Learn more about the “Ban Sow Stalls!” campaign (links to these pages can also be found in the left navigation column):
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