#Act4 FarmAnimals The White Coat Pig Interprofessional (INTERPORC) has created the certification seal "CERTIFIED ANIMAL WELFARE". Spanish pig industry launches welfare labelling scheme 24 April 2019
#Act4 FarmAnimals The fattening houses, in which pigs are kept until they are slaughtered, are to become "more animal-friendly". Criticism over German government plan to allow farmers a 15-year period to renovate pig stables 6 April 2019 Deutscher Tierschutzbund
#Act4 FarmAnimals Animals that are transported at summer temperatures still experience too much heat stress. As summers get hotter, Dutch animal organizations ask for stricter heat protocol for livestock transport 26 March 2019 Dierenbescherming
#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 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 Wildlife For this reason, today we have written to the Minister so that indignation turns into concrete changes. Urging concrete actions on pig breeding regulations 15 February 2019 LAV
#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