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NPPC applauds ‘Walmart’s commitment’

The National Pork Producers Council (NPPC) is applauding, what it calls “Walmart’s commitment to sustainable and responsible farming”.  NPPC spokesman Dave Warner says that’s something that America’s pork producers do every single day.

“The specific policy that Walmart is asking its suppliers to adopt, we align pretty well with most of those,” Warner says.

Especially on the antibiotics issue, although Warner acknowledges some disagreement on the issue of sow housing.

“As the American Veterinary Medical Association and the Association of Swine Veterinarians found out, it’s not the housing system that insures the well-being of the animals, but the animal husbandry—that is the care that is given by the farmers and his or her workers to those animals,” he says.

But Warner says, for the most part, Walmart’s announcement is an affirmation of where the pork industry is already headed.