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Better Pork
February 2017
LABEL
CLAIMS
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Better Pork
December 2016
LABEL
CLAIMS
LABEL
CLAIMS
FOR THE
98%
Hog farming has been improved in the
past few years. In conventional facilities
like this one, producers are working hard
to use antimicrobials more responsibly,
with greater oversight from veterinarians.
Ontario Pork photo
Barely 2 per cent of Canadians are agricultural producers and 98 per cent are
consumers. Today, that 98 per cent increasingly asks for specialty products:
organic, rustic, DHA-enriched, raised without antibiotics, raised without added
hormones or others.
Better Pork
looks at these products and the label claims
attached to them and aims to understand their role in pork production.
by NICHOLAS VAN ALLEN