#Act4 AnimalsEU Janusz Wojciechowski, the EU’s agriculture commissioner, wants to crack down on the environmental impact of intensive animal farming, but apart from support from animal welfare groups, his calls have so far met with mixed reactions. EU agriculture chief under pressure over bid to trim intensive pig farming 17 February 2020
#Act4 FarmAnimals These practices will be prohibited "in the coming months" promised Wednesday the Minister of Agriculture, who nevertheless warns of the dangers of "agribashing". Castration without anesthesia and the "snapping" of piglets soon to be banned in France 30 October 2019
#Act4 AnimalsEU A new video released by the Welfarm association showing castrated pigs without anesthesia reveals a shocking but banal reality, sometimes in contradiction with European standards. Piglet castration: The suffering behind the production of Jambon de Bayonne 23 October 2019 Welfarm
#Act4 FarmAnimals After years of burying neighbours’ complaints about illegal spraying of hog manure, state officials suddenly began posting them online. What changed? 'It smells like a decomposing body': North Carolina's polluting pig farms 11 September 2019
#Act4 FarmAnimals Banned in several European countries, the technique concerns around 85% of French male pigs, or more than 27,000 animals every day. Castration of piglets without painkillers still carried out at the majority of pig farms 6 September 2019
#Act4 FarmAnimals Today WELFARM re-launched their campaign against piglet castration without anesthesia. Due to lack of the EU Pig Directive enforcement, 10 million male piglets, 85% of them no older than 7 days old, are castrated without anesthesia in France every year. WELFARM: Renewed forces against piglet castration without anesthesia in France 27 June 2019 Welfarm
#Act4 FarmAnimals Humane killing practices are virtually unknown in the majority of Thailand’s abattoirs, say campaigners, with millions of pigs dying in pain Death by clubbing: the brutality of Thailand's pig slaughterhouses 11 June 2019
#Act4 FarmAnimals Essere Animali has released a new investigation that documents the cruel procedures that more than 9 million pigs endure on Italian factory farms. The release of the investigation also coincides with the launch of a campaign with a petition, #SOSpigs. ESSERE ANIMALI: #SOSpig campaign 10 April 2019 Essere Animali
#Act4 FarmAnimals On October 1 the German coalition announced their disappointing decision to plan to delay mandatory anesthesia for piglets during castration, just three months before the measure’s supposed enforcement. Germany to delay implementation of mandatory anaesthesia for piglets during castration 8 October 2018 Deutscher Tierschutzbund