EU: EFSA provides recommendations for improving the welfare of breeding pigs
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Published Aug 16, 2022
Tridge summary
EFSA has published a Scientific Opinion on the welfare of pigs on the farm, the first of several animal welfare opinions to be issued in the coming year in the context of the farm to fork strategy. It provides detailed suggestions for improving the welfare of all categories of reared pigs kept in the most appropriate farming systems used in the European Union.
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The opinion describes a total of 16 welfare effects of different breeding systems, which EFSA experts considered very important due to their severity, duration and frequency of occurrence. These include restriction of movement, groups, stress from heat or cold, and prolonged hunger or thirst. Standardized animal welfare assessment methods (ABM) and risks leading to welfare consequences are also described in the opinion for each welfare consequence. The opinion contains measures that should be put in place to prevent or correct the risks and mitigate the very important effects on welfare. EFSA's experts make a number of detailed recommendations, including suggestions on quantitative or qualitative criteria to answer specific questions on the welfare of breeding pigs that emerged under the European Citizens' Initiative "End the cage age". Other topics covered in tail-biting recommendations are: space available, enrichment materials, weaning and the practice of mutilation. EFSA ...
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