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The EU-funded project ‘WelFarmers’, involving 17 partners from 8 European countries, will award farms with best practices in animal welfare and disseminate the results.

This will form the basis for Denmark's first animal welfare agreement.

The aim is to combat the overpopulation of wild boar, an exotic, invasive species with no natural predators, which has caused damage to farming.

United Kingdom pig producers can now become accredited to export to California under the US state's new Proposition 12 regulations.

The Borchert Commission was established in 2019 and, in August 2023, decided to end its work.

New research examines the question of how keeping pigs without tail docking can be made possible.

USDA is taking action to ensure the integrity of animal-raising claims for meat and poultry labels.

Copa and Cogeca have commissioned the first comprehensive report to better understand the economic, social, and environmental impacts of the concept popularized by the European citizens' initiative "End the Cage Age".

This expansion of the regulations comes at the request of the industry, which is struggling with a lack of veterinarians.

A summary of current state legislation addressing swine welfare in the United States and its implications.

The Secretariat of Agriculture and Livestock (SAG) is currently providing support to the national swine industry in order to unify the different associations that make up this sector.

A Royal Decree modifying several aspects related to animal welfare affecting pig farms has been published by the BOE.

Pig farmers will only be allowed to dock the tails of their pigs if they can provide documentation that they have problems with tail biting and are working to reduce the problem.

The Supreme Court of the United States heard oral arguments presented by the NPPC challenging the constitutionality of California Proposition 12.

The most important aspects of the plan are animal welfare, reducing antibiotic use, and CO₂ emissions.

The Borchert Commission considers that it only makes sense to continue "if the federal government decides on a long-term animal welfare premium guaranteed by contract and financed by the state."