Voters in California and Massachusetts have voted to prohibit the use of the crates, and prohibit the sale of pork from farms ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Last week, the House Agriculture Committee approved a version of the farm bill, the sprawling piece of recurring legislation ...

World Animal Protection (WAP) has launched a global campaign calling on supermarket chains to source their pork from high-welfare farms. The campaign is targeting major retailers across the world, ...

Chinese agri-food producer Da Bei Nong will introduce group sow housing and lower stocking density in a scheme that could radically change animal welfare for half the world’s pig population. Da Bei ...

Chipotle Mexican Grill announced that it was the only U.S. company honored at the Compassion in World Farming’s Good Farm Animal Welfare Awards. The event celebrated the global momentum that ...

Machine learning has become integral to modern pig welfare management by enabling continuous, objective monitoring of animal health and behaviour. Through the integration of sensors—including depth ...

Pork production is a societal concern on several fronts: antibiotics use, infectious disease, poor animal welfare and climate and environmental pressures. Even though the beef, coffee and chocolate ...

DES MOINES, IowaDES MOINES, Iowa — Ohio hog farmer Joe Brandt changed his operation a few years ago to give his pigs more room and keep pregnant sows out of the narrow crates used by most farms.

The lack of skills and training of staff working in pig slaughtering has been highlighted as a serious welfare concern by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA). Most hazards related to the welfare ...

In 2014, Canada’s pork industry vowed to end their use of gestation crates—individual pens in which pregnant pigs are confined—by 2024. Now, industry stakeholders are proposing a five-year extension ...

Consumers would rather pay more for higher-welfare pork than for pork with a reduced climate footprint, according to a new study. Pork production is a societal concern on several fronts: antibiotics ...