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Farming Today This Week: Animal welfare in farming

A panel of experts discuss whether animal welfare and food production can coexist and how standards can or should be improved in the future. Charlotte Smith presents.

Can high standards of animal welfare and food production coexist? That's the question Charlotte Smith puts to Richard Findlay from the National Farmers' Union, David Main from the Royal Agricultural University in Cirencester, and Phil Brooke from Compassion in World Farming. Together they have a frank discussion of a wealth of welfare issues, such as tail-docking in pigs, the fate of male calves in the dairy industry, and the transportation of livestock both in the UK and abroad.

Producer: Toby Field.

27 minutes

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Sat 26 May 2018 06:30

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  • Sat 26 May 2018 06:30

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