The government is planning to end the use of hen cages as part of a raft of proposals to improve animal welfare standards in England. The measures also include moving away from the use of pig ...

Defra ministers have indicated plans to move away from the use of traditional fixed farrowing crates on UK pig farms. Further details on how and when these potential changes could be implemented are ...

Farming minister Dame Angela Eagle has promised to work with farmers, as the government presses ahead with plans to phase out ...

Animal welfare activists, public submitters and the associate agriculture minister are still at odds around the use of farrowing crates and mating stalls at pig farms, amid the release of covert ...

Activists are celebrating “landmark” animal welfare reforms that could spare millions of animals from being gassed to death or suffering in cramped cages while being farmed for their meat, eggs or fur ...

Humane slaughter requirements for farmed fish and end to puppy farming also in new package of animal welfare laws ...