EU gestation stalls ban

Timing is everything but can the EU pig industry take much more ill-conceived, ill-timed restrictions, with their adverse effect on cost of production, at this time, without some support? If the UK’s National Pig Association (NPA) is correct then 80% of the EU countries will not be fully compliant with the switch to group housing or the ban on gestation stalls, which the EU has introduced from January 1st 2013. More importantly, they estimated 2 million pigs/week or 40% of EU pig production wi