What the textbooks don’t tell you about…Pigs liking people

Do pigs like people? Not such a silly question, really! Researchers Paul Hemsworth in Australia and Harold Gonyou in North America, but also others in the behavioural field like Temple Grandin who specialises in moving pigs, have spent a lot of their lives studying stockperson-pig interrelationships. Hemsworth especially shows great ingenuity in trying to measure this scientifically and it`s effect on pig performance. He has quantified how ‘pleasant’ treatment (gentle manner, soothi