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Pressure on Defra to phase out farrowing crates in upcoming Animal Welfare Strategy

Can the Government deliver the most ambitious plans to improve animal welfare in a generation as it claims?p

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"In the UK there is clear and growing public, professional and industry-level support for ending this cruel and unnecessary practice [pig farrowing]."
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"In the UK there is clear and growing public, professional and industry-level support for ending this cruel and unnecessary practice [pig farrowing]."

More than 35 cross-party MPs have placed pressure on Defra Secretary Emma Reynolds to end the use of farrowing crates and confinement cages in farming. Waveney Valley MP Adrian Ramsay, formerly the...

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