#Act4 FarmAnimals A pig breeder was sentenced to three years in prison by the Ulm district court on Friday for cruelty to animals in factory farming. Pig farmer sentenced for animal cruelty 17 March 2019
#Act4 FarmAnimals The headline finding from the 2018 Benchmark is that farm animal welfare leadership and improved management practices are starting to become institutionalised, with more than half of the world’s largest food companies focusing efforts to ensure that farm animal welfare is effectively managed. The "Business Benchmark on Farm Animal Welfare" Report 2018 26 February 2019 CIWF
#Act4 FarmAnimals The result is now: a state label for pork. The ministry calls it "animal welfare" label. Is the German animal welfare label just a marketing gimmick? 7 February 2019
#Act4 FarmAnimals In the People’s Republic of China, efforts to ‘control’ the African swine fever (ASF) virus include burying domesticated pigs alive. African Swine Fever: EU raises concerns with China over live burial of diseased pigs 28 January 2019
#Act4 FarmAnimals The Animal Protection can now reveal that up to 9,000 pigs at gatherings each year die or are killed in connection with exports abroad. Each year up to 9,000 pigs die before leaving Denmark 24 January 2019 Animal Protection Denmark
#Act4 FarmAnimals In the country’s two main breeding regions, 98% of farmers rely on the banned, traumatic practice of routinely cutting pigs’ tails Guardian finally releases long awaited article on the curse of tail-docking in Italy and beyond 19 January 2019
#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
#Act4 FarmAnimals After we exposed systematic cruelties and unlawful practices in Parma Ham production last March, Essere Animali’s new investigation shows nothing has changed and severe abuses are still ongoing in farms where pigs destined for Parma Ham are bred. New investigation exposes severe abuses on pigs destined for Parma Ham production 11 September 2018 Essere Animali
#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