The controversial practice of farrowing crates is used after sows give give birth to restrict movement with the 'severe' form of animal cruelty impacting 200,000 pregnant pigs each year ...

Concluding the debate, Mr Zeichner said the prime minister has committed to publishing an animal welfare strategy later this ...

The UK Government has been urged to ban the use of farrowing crates on pig farms as they ‘violate’ animal welfare laws.

Humane World for Animals Says New Polling Reveals 69% of Brits Reject the Practice of Caging Mother Pigs in Farrowing Crates ...

The research, originally conducted between 2018 and 2020, compared the two systems through sow behaviour and health, and ...

After their pregnancy, the sows are put in farrowing crates where they nurse ... Constricting animals in cages is one of the cruelest practices in factory farming, which is also perpetrated ...

The objective of this study was to evaluate behavioral changes and physiological parameters in the presence or absence of cages in farrowing facilities and to ... summer in a tropical climate.

Introduced in the 1960s, farrowing crates heavily restrict the movement of sows during and after giving birth in order ... to introducing a legislative proposal to ban the use of cages for farmed ...

Farrowing crates are used to prevent sows from crushing their piglets ... products are from systems that keep animals in such cruel cages. "Our investigation reveals that their farms are no ...

Bill – there remain millions of animals farmed in cages each year. One of the most concerning cases occurs in the use of pig farrowing crates, where 60 per cent of sows in our national herd are ...