Master Agroindustrial goes crate-free in Brazil

By Patrycia Sato @ 2024-10-17T23:22 (+1)

Hi FAST Friends & Community,

After years of negotiations and a public campaign by Forum Animal, we are happy to share that Master Agroindustrial, a pork producer and processor with approximately 40 thousand sows and over 1 million piglets per year, has announced a pig welfare policy that includes:

- adoption of collective pens for pregnant sows for up to 28 days post-service in 100% of operations by 2031;

- not performing ear notching to identify animals;

- not performing routine teeth clipping, except when there is a risk to the well-being of the female or litter;

- not performing surgical castration on males (only immunocastration);

- performing the docking of only the final third of the tail up to 3 days of age, by trained operators;

- not using antibiotics as growth promoters; 

among others.

The company had already published a commitment last year, but it was insufficient, which required longer negotiations by the organizations until the policy was agreed upon. 

You can check their commitment (in Portuguese) here.

Scale: National (Brazil)

Timeline: Almost 3 years of negotiations 

Who: Alianima, Forum Animal, HSI and Sinergia Animal.

Follow Up: Alianima will include them to participate in the Pig Watch starting next year, Sinergia Animal will work with them on the Pigs in Focus report, Fórum Animal will do follow up monitoring the advances and encouraging public report and HSI will continue engagement to encourage the wider adoption of preimplantation group housing systems across their operations.

Kind regards,

Patrycia Sato (ela/ella/she)

Presidente e Diretora Técnica - Médica Veterinária, PhD

President and Technical Director - Veterinarian, PhD
E-mail: sato@alianima.org

Phone: +55 21 99645-0040 (WhatsApp)

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