Urge UK political leaders to stop keeping mother pigs behind bars!

I support The Crate Escape campaign to end the use of farrowing crates on pig farms in the United Kingdom.

It is cruel and unnecessary to force mother pigs (sows) to be locked in narrow metal cages, known as farrowing crates, for up to five weeks every time they give birth. Sows confined in crates in the UK spend up to a quarter of their adult lives behind bars and suffer physically and mentally, unable to do anything other than stand up or lie down—the space is so limited that they can’t even turn around.

Around 40% of UK sows are not kept in crates, but the UK governments need to support farmers to turn that into 100% crate free.

I call upon the Secretary of State for Defra (England), Agriculture Minister (Scotland), Minister for Rural Affairs (Wales), DAERA Minister (Northern Ireland) to join me in supporting The Crate Escape, and fully ban farrowing crates from the UK.

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