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Uncaging New Zealand's Sows: Scrutinizing Farrowing Crates, Andrew Knight
Uncaging New Zealand's Sows: Scrutinizing Farrowing Crates, Andrew Knight
Andrew Knight, PhD
This 13,000 word report was published by SAFE (a leading NZ animal advocacy organisation). It documents the welfare problems experienced by around 15,000 New Zealand sows annually, who are confined within metal cages barely larger than their own bodies, in a practice claimed to decrease piglet mortality. It was delivered to NZ’s Primary Production Select Committee along with SAFE’s own submission in June 2018. The Committee was reviewing a 112,844 signature petition to Parliament (the largest in 5 years), which requested a ban on sow farrowing crates.