Wanted: Your experience with pig castration

Piglet castration is an ambiguous practice – on one side nobody likes it, yet stopping the practice or offering pain relief appears difficult to achieve in many countries. Health and welfare expert Dr Monique Pairis-Garcia and her colleagues at North Carolina State University would like to understand why – and are looking for your experiences and motives. Surgical castration is a painful husbandry procedure performed on piglets within the first week of life to improve meat quality. In the U