Managing pain on swine farms

Pain management on farms is not going away any time soon and will continue to be central to the discussion on farm ?animal welfare. When addressing pain issues, what options do pork producers have? By Monique D. Pairis-Garcia, Ohio State University & Anna K. Johnson, Iowa State University, United States Pain has been defined by the International Association for the Study of Pain as “an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage, or descri