(No) Time for welfare?

Many may argue that improving pig welfare takes too much time, writes welfare expert Dr Irene Camerlink. As a scientist, she used to disagree with this. As a pig keeper, she now agrees: all these extra ways to improve pig welfare do take time – lots of time, even, when the aim is to do it right. But she still considers it worth it. She looks at some examples to explain why. Pig welfare can be greatly improved by providing species-appropriate enrichment material. A metal chain is clearly not