Going for performance and high welfare

Often, the goals sound contradictory: Aiming for high performance is usually not associated with care for animal welfare. But is it impossible? Bishop Burton College’s pig unit in the UK shows that the two may well go together. Bishop Burton College’s 220 sow pig unit based in Yorkshire, UK, is impressive in the way they are pursuing good performance, while trying to adopt high welfare standards. In the UK, high welfare production according to Freedom Foods standards carries a 5% pr