The Mizoram government has banned the use of constricting crates used for pregnant and nursing pigs in piggeries across the State.
The move followed a petition from the Mercy For Animals India Foundation to prohibit the manufacture, sale, and use of gestation and farrowing – the production of a litter of pigs – crates for sows.
The Deputy Secretary of Mizoram’s Animal Husbandry Department confirmed the ban on such crates in compliance with the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act of 1960, a spokesperson of the foundation said on Wednesday.
