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Pork distributor to help eliminate gestation stalls
Story Date: 9/18/2012
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Source: Tom Johnston, MEATINGPLACE, 9/17/12
Atlantic Premium Brands Ltd. plans to eliminate gestation stalls from its supply chain by 2017, the company and the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) has announced.
The Northbrook, Ill.-based pork distributor supplies the retailers the likes of Walmart, HEB, Kroger, Costco, Winn Dixie, Sam’s Club, Safeway and SUPERVALU. Atlantic also produces brands including Blue Ribbon Smoked Sausage, Richard’s Cajun Favorites Smoked Sausage, Tejano Gold, Texas Traditions Premium Sausage, Carlton Sausage and many private-label brands.
“Atlantic Premium takes animal welfare seriously, and wholeheartedly endorses the transition from gestation crates to group housing for pigs, which is a direction many of our pork suppliers are already moving in,” President and CEO Thomas Dalton said in a news release. “Like many of customer partners and others in the food industry, we too are putting in place plans to have a gestation crate-free supply chain by 2017, which is the date by which many leading pork producers will be gestation crate-free.”
Similar announcements have come recently from Costco, Kroger, Safeway, McDonald’s, Burger King, Wendy’s and Oscar Mayer. Meanwhile, nine U.S. states have passed laws that ban the use of gestation stalls.
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