The government is planning to end the use of hen cages as part of a raft of proposals to improve animal welfare standards in England. The measures also include moving away from the use of pig ...

Campaigners have renewed calls for the government to honour its pledge to ban farrowing crates, as polling suggests most ...

There is a lot of talk in the industry about “flexible farrowing” – systems that allow temporary confinement of pregnant and birthing sows – with those in favour seeing it as a positive welfare ...

DES MOINES -- Blank Park Zoo has no plans to make changes in a pig exhibit despite objections from a coalition of groups and alternative hog farmers that it represents a "factory farm" style of hog ...

Animal rights campaigners were out on the streets of Perth with a life-size animatronic pig as part of a campaign to ban farrowing crates. The representatives from Humane World for Animals UK hit the ...

A GOP-backed provision inside the 2026 farm bill, which passed the House Thursday morning, could undo state laws aimed at preventing pigs from being housed in spaces so small they can't turn around.

The representatives from Humane World for Animals UK hit the city on the issue of conditions for mother pigs - with a major farming group calling for more investment in the sector to secure changes.