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Herald Scotland: Buy British to pay the price for better animal welfare

14/01/2013

Your local butcher is not knowingly part of a criminal ring. New European Union animal welfare legislation that came into force on January 1 made it illegal to confine sows in individual metal cages, known as sow stalls. Despite having had more than a decade to prepare for this new legislation, it is reckoned about 40% of EU pig production is still coming from farms that keep pigs illegally in stalls.

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