Simple Summary Castration of male piglets has traditionally been carried out to control boar
taint, but animal welfare concerns about surgical castration has brought this practice under …

The purpose of this review is to present the best available scientific knowledge on key
animal welfare issues during swine transport, such as transport duration and distance, time …

At all times, prior to slaughter, pigs may experience stress from a range of handling
practices, such as fasting, loading and transport, mixing, and interaction with humans. These …

Understanding the relationships between social stress and the gastrointestinal microbiota,
and how they influence host health and performance is expected to have many scientific and …

In the framework of its Farm to Fork Strategy, the Commission is undertaking a
comprehensive evaluation of the animal welfare legislation. The present Opinion deals with …

The killing of pigs for human consumption (slaughtering) can take place in a slaughterhouse
or on farm. The processes of slaughtering that were assessed for welfare, from the arrival of …

Oxytocin is associated with reproductive physiology but also with welfare and positive
emotions. In this study, oxytocin was measured in saliva samples of 45 pigs that were …

Animal welfare and stress refer to the subjective experience of the animal, which depends
on its emotional and cognitive capacities to evaluate the situation it is in, to know its body …

Simple Summary This study aimed at investigating which pre-slaughter parameters
determine variations in the quality of the loin derived from pigs intended for Italian PDO …

The incidence of non-ambulatory non-injured (NANI), non-ambulatory injured (NAI) and
dead pigs on-arrival at three Brazilian slaughterhouses were evaluated in 37,962 pigs to …