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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
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Calla Wahlquist

Pigs still held in narrow pens industry promised to ban, Victorian Animal Justice party claims

A pig facing the camera
Victoria’s Animal Justice party has raised concerns some piggeries appear to be still using sow stalls. Photograph: Kacper Pempel/Reuters

Pigs in Victoria are still being held in narrow pens that are not wide enough for the animals to turn around, despite an industry promise to stop using them five years ago, according to the Animal Justice party.

The party is now calling for a ban on the use of the 0.6 metre by 2 metre stalls, called sow or gestation stalls, which the Australian pig industry committed to phasing out by 2017.

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