Ontario Pork

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Led by producers, Ontario Pork is committed to sustainable growth in the pork sector, delivering government representation, research investment, industry improvements in areas including animal care and environmental sustainability, while growing the brand and reputation of producers and their product. Ontario Pork also provides marketing services to participating producers. Ontario Pork represents the 1,284 farmers who market 5.17 million hogs in the province. The organization is engaged in many areas, including research, government representation, environmental issues, consumer education and food quality assurance. Ontario Pork is the first livestock commodity group in the province to set social responsibility benchmarks, demonstrating pork producers' commitment to sustainable farming. Ontario's pork industry "farm to fork" generates $3.2 billion in economic output and 20,459 in full-time equivalent jobs ontariopork.on.ca