Dr Temple Grandin: “Covid-19 was a disaster for the pork industry”

“From both a sustainability and animal welfare standpoint, Covid-19 was a disaster for the US pork industry.” That is the conclusion of Dr Temple Grandin, professor in the department of animal science at Colorado State University, in a new research paper in which she does not mince words. Dr Grandin asserts that programmes must be put in place so that what happened in 2020 in the US – when large numbers of healthy pigs were destroyed on-farm because of severely curtailed slaughter plant c