MUMBAI: Maharashtra government has officially stopped the cruel practice of confining female pigs inside small crates in which the animals can barely move and cannot even turn around.
Following an appeal from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) India to prohibit the manufacture, sale, and use of gestation and farrowing crates in pig farming, the Commissionerate of Animal Husbandry, Government of Maharashtra, has issued a circular instructing deputy commissioners, animal husbandry cum member secretaries, Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, of all districts, mandating compliance with the group’s request.
