RESOURCES AND LINKS

Animal Welfare – Pork

• PURDUE UNIVERSITY, ALLAN SCHINCKEL, PHD. GESTATION AND FARROWING CRATES FOR PIGS

  • Basic information on Gestation and Farrowing Crates for Pigs, what they are, why they are used, and positive/negative impacts on health.
    • Gestation and Farrowing Crates for Pigs

• AMERICAN VETERINARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION – STATEMENT ON SOW HOUSING

  • Over 200 AVMA veterinarians signed this document in favor of maternity housing.
    • Veterinarian Statement on Sow Housing

• USDA-ARS-MWA LIVESTOCK BEHAVIOR RESEARCH UNIT, DR. JEREMY N. MARCHANT-FORDE. WELFARE OF SOWS AND PIGLETS AT FARROWING, 2011

  • Explanation of behavior around farrowing, how the systems work, and why they are recommended.
  • Swine Welfare Fact Sheet

• AVMA, WELFARE IMPLICATIONS OF GESTATION SOW HOUSING, NOVEMBER 19, 2015

  • Stall housing allows each sow to be given an individually tailored diet and access to water.
  • Group pens have more aggression injuries. Dominate sows may become overweight and others may become underweight out to dominance.
  • Welfare Implications of Gestation Sow Housing

• WAKEFIELD PORK – EDUCATIONAL TOUR AND BLOGGER OBSERVATIONS

  • Pig Farming- Farm To Table With Wakefield Pork

• WAKEFIELD PORK – INTERVIEWS WITH FOOD BLOGGERS

• INFORMATION FROM NATIONAL HOG FARMER

  • Getting the Right Message on Sow Gestation Stalls

• THE TRUTH ABOUT GESTATION CRATES WEBSITE

  • http://maternitypens.com/

• HSUS WHISTLEBLOWER TELLS ALL

• HSUS WHISTLEBLOWER OBSERVATIONS ABOUT MATERNITY PENS

Animal Welfare – Egg Production

• UC DAVIS, EXAMINING THE EFFECTS OF HEN HOUSING, APRIL 28, 2015

  • Examining The Effects Of Hen Housing

• COALITION FOR SUSTAINABLE EGG SUPPLY – THREE YEAR STUDY

  • Aviary system: highest incidence of keel abnormalities, dirtiest feathers, highest levels of Salmonella, highest indoor ammonia concentrations, highest levels of particulate matter, workers exposed to higher concentrations of airborne particles and endotoxins, highest labor cost, total capital cost per dozen eggs was 179% higher than conventional, operating costs were 23% higher than conventional, total cost per dozen eggs was 36% higher than conventional (36% more expensive to produce aviary eggs), housing system did not affect quality of eggs,
    • Final Results

  • Infographic of results:

    • Research Results

• POPULAR SCIENCE, CAGE-FREE CHICKENS KEEP WINDING UP WITH BROKEN BONES, AND SCIENTISTS ARE LOOKING FOR A SOLUTION. MAY 11, 2017

  • Popular Science Article

• ACTA VETERINARIA SCANDINAVICA, FREE RANGE CHICKENS ARE MORE PRONE TO DISEASE. JANUARY 16, 2009

  • Science Daily: Free-range Chickens Are More Prone To Disease

Animal Welfare – Veal

• AMERICAN VEAL ASSOCIATION:

  • http://www.americanveal.com/animal-care-housing/

Environmental

• LIVESTOCK AND CLIMATE CHANGE: FACTS AND FICTION

• Frank Mitloehner, Professor & Air Quality Specialist Department of Animal Science, University of California, Davis
  • Livestock and Climate Change: Facts and Fiction

Research – Statistics – Economic Impact

• CHARLES H. DYSON SCHOOL OF APPLIED ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT, CORNELL UNIVERSITY. HARRY M. KAISER. IMPLICATIONS OF INTERSTATE COMMERCE RESTRICTIONS ON RETAIL EGG AND PORK PRICES AND DEMAND. MAY 2016

  • Analysis is based on retail egg price data in CA versus US for 2014 and 2015.
  • Egg prices increased in CA by $1.05 per dozen (37.8%) and increased $0.56 (27.4% nation wide) ***Avian influenza outbreak was also going on at this time which could be the cause for the US increase. CA still had an increase of $0.49 per dozen (with influenza outbreak price taken out of consideration) which is a 18% increase.
  • Price per person, per year ends up with $14 more spent than before Prop 2.
    • Smart Marketing May 2016

• COST OF EGGS

  • California animal welfare aftermath: Pricey eggs & less of them
  • Rose Acre puts cage-free housing construction on hold

• ILLINOIS FARM BUREAU, FACTS ABOUT CAGE-FREE EGGS, SEPTEMBER 2011

  • Lowest cost sources of high-quality protein.
  • Cost to farmers of converting modern hen houses into cage-free facilities is estimated to be $7.5 billion.
    • http://www.ilfb.org/media/197089/final_cage_free.pdf

• BERKLEY FOUNDATION FOR AGRICULTURE ECONOMICS – FARM STATS FOR CALIFORNIA

  • ARE Update

• HOW CALIFORNIA FARMS MEASURE UP

  • Lodi Growers articel

• 2015 U.S. CENSUS

  • The Supplemental Poverty Measure: 2015

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