Transporting anesthetized pigs in a laboratory setting often requires strenuous manual lifting, posing a hazard to the safety of animal care personnel and to the welfare of the pigs. The authors ...

In the United States, federal regulations require that pigs be stunned prior to slaughter by one of four methods: electricity, chemicals (gas), captive bolt device, or gunshot. The smallest slaughter ...

JoDee Haala grew up with horses. Now the director of animal well being with Minnesota's Christensen Farms, one of the largest, family-owned pork producers in the U.S., she often reflects on a common ...

But such alternatives are more likely to be of interest to processors than to pig farmers or hauliers, because of the initially higher costs associated, said Teagasc researchers, who collaborated with ...

In the 1980s, I was working on improving pig handling in North Carolina, when one morning, the plant was hit by lightning. There was a torrential rainstorm, a big bang and then a power failure stopped ...

A Des Moines man’s ejection from the Iowa State Fair for life after he confronted the fair's top manager over a boy beating a pig with a show stick triggered some readers to ask about proper handling ...

“APL’s position is consistent – we care about our pigs, and as an industry we share the community’s concern for the welfare of our animals,” the industry’s peak body said in a statement released this ...