#Act4 LabAnimals Global outrage is mounting after Chinese scientists were revealed to be using live pigs as crash test dummies - either killing them in the process or leaving them badly maimed. Chinese scientists using live pigs as crash test dummies and slamming them into walls at high speed 1 November 2019
#Act4 FarmAnimals A spokesman for the Itzeho police commented favorably on the occupation of a slaughterhouse. German police spokesman sympathetic to slaughterhouse occupation receives public reprimand 24 October 2019
#Act4 FarmAnimals China’s large-scale hog farms that survived the world’s worst animal disease outbreak are expanding their herds, driving a recovery in sow numbers as early as next year, a pig conference heard. How China’s giant pig purge is shaking up the $118 billion pork industry 23 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 It's probably due to a hot summer and a bad vaccine. Use of antibiotics for fish in Denmark has doubled in a year 26 September 2019
#Act4 FarmAnimals Accepted motions for resolutions on changes in animal transport but a positive signal Austrian MEPs vote on motions for resolutions on live animal transport 20 September 2019 Four Paws
#Act4 FarmAnimals A major animal rights campaign in Switzerland is fighting to outlaw factory farming after a petition calling for a ban attracted 100,000 signatures. Switzerland to hold a public vote on factory farming ban 19 September 2019
#Act4 FarmAnimals Minister of Agriculture Schouten has decided that CO2 stunning of slaughter pigs remains possible for the time being. CO2 stunning of pigs will still be allowed in the Netherlands 12 September 2019
#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 Tail lesions are a major welfare concern within pig farming. Study: “The Importance of the social sciences in reducing tail biting prevalence in pigs” 21 August 2019
#Act4 FarmAnimals The federal government is poised this month to adopt a rule that would essentially turn the largest pork processing lines in the United States into the autobahn: no speed limit. How many hogs can be slaughtered per hour? The pork industry wants more 9 August 2019
#Act4 FarmAnimals Danish Crown, one of Europe’s largest meat processors, is to stop slaughtering pigs at one of its facilities in Germany and has plans to produce plantbased beef products and burgers. Europe’s largest pork producer to stop pig slaughter in Germany and produce vegan meat 2 August 2019