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Swedish Meats

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Swedish Meats (known as Scan Farmek until 1 January 1999) was a company that provides the leading Swedish meat manufacturer Scan with animals for slaughter. The Swedish Meats association consists of 17,000 livestock farmers across Sweden.[1]

The former chair of Swedish Meats, Lars Hultström, resigned from his position in November 2009 following an animal rights scandal. After visiting more than 100 pig farms in Sweden, the Animal Rights Alliance (Swedish: Djurrättsalliansen) claimed to have witnessed violations of Sweden's animal protection laws at almost every farm. One of the farms was Hultström's, where the group claimed to have recorded footage of pigs eating the carcass of a dead pig that had been left lying on the floor.[1][2] Ulf Sahlin became the new chair of Swedish Meats following Hultström's resignation.[3]

References

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  1. ^ a b Simpson, Peter Vinthagen (2009-11-29). "Swedish Meats chair quits over pig scandal". The Local. Retrieved 2009-12-05.
  2. ^ Hedblom, Irene (2009-12-02). "Ulf från Stöde tar nu över Swedish Meats". Dagbladet (in Swedish). Archived from the original on 3 December 2009. Retrieved 4 December 2009.
  3. ^ "Stödebonde ska leda Swedish Meats" (in Swedish). Sveriges Television. 2009-12-01. Archived from the original on 2011-06-13. Retrieved 2009-12-05.