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Sales boost expected after stalls ban

Yorkshire-based international pig genetics company, ACMC, is expecting sales of its AC1 gilt and grandparent stock to increase substantially next year after the new welfare codes come into force in mainland Europe.

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Positive pig welfare outcomes

The Board of the CRC for High Integrity Australian Pork has adopted welfare indicators to be assessed in all relevant projects.

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Temple Grandin: Animal Behavior and Welfare

Temple Grandin, an animal welfare expert and designer of livestock facilities, lectured at Kennedy Hall Feb. 24 during her last visit to campus as a Rhodes Class of '56 Professor. Grandin, who has autism, has spent her career figuring out what frightens pigs and cattle.

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Germany: castrating piglets without anaesthesia will be banned

The Federal Agriculture Ministry lays down a time schedule for phasing out the practice of castrating piglets without anaesthesia: accordingly, this method is to be banned throughout Germany as of 1 January 2017.

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Progress for pigs in 2012

A surge of fast-food giants, pork producers, and grocers move to phase out gestation crates for pigs.

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EU: Presidency work programme in the agriculture and fisheries sectors

The agricultural policy priorities of the Presidency will include the new animal health law.

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EU: no need for revising the legal provisions on the protection of animals during transport

The Commission considers that there is currently no need for revising the legal provisions on the protection of animals during transport and favour instead the harmonisation of the implementation of these provisions in the member states and their enforcement.

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Israel: Agriculture Ministry seeking to move all of pig farms to country's south

The Agriculture Ministry wants all 26 of Israel's pig farms to be moved from the north of the country to the south.

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Authors@Google: Temple Grandin

Temple Grandin visits Google's Boulder, CO office to discuss her book "Animals Make Us Human: Creating the Best Life for Animals."

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Animal cloning: EFSA reiterates safety of derived food products

With respect to food safety, there are no indications that differences exist between food products derived from healthy clones or their offspring – in particular milk and meat - from those of healthy, conventionally bred animals.

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Animal welfare: MEPs call for crackdown on offenders to protect public health

Animal welfare rules must be better enforced, existing loopholes closed and offenders punished, not least because they also protect human health, by preventing the spread of animal-related diseases and antimicrobial resistance.

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Australia: new standards raise bar on stock transport

South Australia will be among the first states to implement new national regulations for transporting livestock.

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Ireland: improvements to terms of Sow Welfare Scheme

The Minister accordingly announced that he is increasing the current investment ceiling of €300,000 per holding to €500,000.

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Australia: correct pig handling lifts profits

ProHand is a training course designed by Melbourne and Monash University animal welfare researchers to teach piggery stockpeople correct pig handling and moving techniques.

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USA: Rhode Island to ban gestation crates for breeding pigs

The bill S.2191/H.7180, legislation that prohibits the extreme confinement of breeding pigs and veal calves in small crates passed the Senate and House.

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European Union - Animal Welfare: agriculture committee calls for crackdown on offenders

Animal welfare rules must be enforced and offenders must be punished, say agriculture MEPs in a resolution adopted on Tuesday.