#Act4 FarmAnimals In an unprecedented move, a French criminal court has condemned the practice of illegal routine tail docking of pigs and issued a fine of 50,000 euros, including 25,000 suspended, against the owners of a pig farm. Justice is served for pigs as French court case condemns routine tail docking 20 April 2022
#Act4 FarmAnimals Welfarm is calling for a ban on the castration of piglets in its new campaign launched on November 4th in Paris. Welfarm is calling for a ban on the castration of piglets 19 November 2021 Welfarm
#Act4 FarmAnimals In France, many male piglets are castrated to prevent the development of an unpleasant odour (known as “boar smell”) that may occur when the meat of some carcasses is first cooked. Although this practice is decreasing, it remains problematic: it is extremely painful and stressful for the animal. The Bigard group refuses alternatives to castration of piglets 24 June 2021 Welfarm
#Act4 FarmAnimals Two and a half months after the publication of a first investigation filmed in an Allier pig farm supplying the Herta brand, L214 unveils new images shot in January 2021 in the same farm. L214 releases a new footage of one of Herta's pig farm 11 February 2021
#Act4 FarmAnimals Our French member L214 reveals new shocking images shot in a pig farm located in Auvergne. This investigation aims to draw the attention of French MPs to the cruel reality of intensive breeding on the same day a public discussion on a proposed law on the animal condition is taking place in the French National Assembly. New horror images in an intensive pig farm in France 8 October 2020
#Act4 FarmAnimals Tail-docked pigs have unacceptable level of tail lesions. European Commission's audit in France reveals Pig Directive not enforced 2 March 2020
#Act4 FarmAnimals Researchers worry about the "growing influence [of the lobbies of animal husbandry] in public decisions which takes on a worrying dimension for our democracy" 130 researchers warn in open letter to better protect whistleblowers in France 29 January 2020
#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 Improving animal welfare is the primary objective of this mobile slaughterhouse project led by Bio Normandie, "it is an increasingly strong demand from consumers and breeders" explains Christophe Dupeyré, project manager in the association. A mobile slaughterhouse project in France for pigs, sheep and goats 21 March 2019
#Act4 FarmAnimals Animal activist group L214 has revealed today, through the newspaper Le Monde, new terrible images of the way pigs are being bred on a farm in Finistère near Quimper, France. Pigs forced to live among putrefying pen mates 21 March 2017