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Compass Group Bans Gestation Crates

11/22/2022

The Compass Group, a major catering operation supplying 10,000 institutions including colleges, and hospitals confirmed that it will transition to sourcing pork from group-housed sows by the summer of 2023, effectively eliminating suppliers using gestation crates.  The original intent was to purchase only gestation-crate free pork by 2017 but the target date was extended due to supply chain issues.

 

The Compass Group is only one of many food service providers, retailers and restaurant chains committed to sourcing pork from operations using group-housing of sows.

 

Irrespective of the outcome of the Supreme Court review of the constitutionality of California Proposition #12, as far as gestational crates are concerned, the train left the station a number of years ago. Packers, that have not followed the lead of competitors who have either converted or are in the process of conversion, will be at a disadvantage in the domestic market as they run out of customers.


 
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