Science summary’ contradicting animal welfare advisory agency used to justify law change.

Animal welfare activists, public submitters and the associate agriculture minister are still at odds around the use of ...

Sows are highly motivated to build a nest prior to farrowing, but, given the barren environment of farrowing crates, this behaviour is limited and improperly expressed. We aimed to assess the effects ...

Hoggard is ushering through a bill that would give pig farmers another decade to make welfare-boosting adjustments to crates holding sows and their litters.

One way to reduce the negative impact of farrowing crates on sow welfare is to limit confinement of sows from the onset of farrowing until the end of the critical period of piglets’ life a few days ...

SPCA is calling on New Zealanders to make their voices heard on the Government’s proposed changes to pig farming regulations, a cruel and outdated practice which would allow the current use of ...

With a gentle, expert touch, pork industry executive Phil Borgic inspects the sow in the tight metal crate. For almost her entire life, iron bars will hold this mother pig on the slotted concrete ...

Soon, the French pig producer Laurent Dartois will be taking another major step in his farm’s development. In 2026, he aims ...

Like a lot of food-obsessed people, I love pork. The chef David Chang, whose Manhattan restaurant Momofuku is practically a porcine temple, once declared the pig a “mystical, magical animal.” In ...