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The New EU Welfare Proposals
By John Gadd, England, National Hog Farmer - By the year 2013, all member states of the European Union (EU) must comply with draconian new animal welfare regulations. Some EU countries such as Sweden and the United Kingdom are already well down the proposed route, voluntarily.
U.S. readers will already know, for example, that our own national welfare laws prevent us from keeping sows in stalls, weaning pigs under 21 days of age and a lot of other things.
The new EU proposals go even further, so the majority of EU member states will have much catching up to do.
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Source: National Hog Farmer - 15th November 2002
