A firm running a controversial pig farm which has attracted hundreds of complaints over smell has been refused retrospective ...

Defra ministers have indicated plans to move away from the use of traditional fixed farrowing crates on UK pig farms. Further ...

The sole farming representative on the government ’s new national food strategy body has stepped down, The Grocer has learnt.

Meat producer Cranswick has pledged £40m to raise welfare standards across its pig farms, after a review sparked by shocking animal cruelty videos.

A landmark report by the Animal Welfare Committee (AWC) has called for widespread CO2 “stunning” of farmed pigs to be phased ...

Meat giant Cranswick is to invest £40m over the next three years to improve farm practices after covert footage emerged which ...

Plans to modernise an East Yorkshire pig breeding site are among those currently under consideration by East Riding Council.

A Dutch horror film branded ‘grim’ and ‘punishing’ has become the first to receive a rare ban. Meat Kills (Vleesdag), ...

Farmers and crofters are criticising the Scottish Government over the allocation of grants for the Future Farming Investment Scheme. About 7,500 applications were submitted for the £21 million fund, ...

The answer is that it depends on the humans caring for them. Pigs are social, intelligent and affectionate animals. But they ...

Farms not Factories, which campaigns against pig factories, has blamed 'Zionists' for the Holocaust, 9/11 and the war in ...