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Presentation at the Animal Welfare Platform

Gé Backus presented an overview of the work of the international voluntary subgroup on ending piglet castration on the June 16th meeting of the European Animal Welfare Platform. He concluded …

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Webinar “footprint of male pigs in Europe”

Boars on the Way in cooperation with Pig Progress hosted a webinar on the environmental impact of keeping entire boars. The webinar was broadcast on Thursday, February 23, and can …

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Ending castration of piglets explained (you tube)

The impact of ending castration of entire male pigs in Europe is explained in a two minutes YouTube animation. Ending piglet castration is better for the animal, saves money for …

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Footprint of entire male pigs in Europe (pdf)

Ending piglet castration in the EU results in a lower footprint of in total 4.4 million ton CO2 equivalents per year. Producing boars instead of barrows results in a better …

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Consumers’ view on pork

Online surveys were performed with 11,294 consumers from ten EU and four non-EU countries. Four consumer segments were identified: Demanding, Average, Low-on eco, and Indifferent. It is concluded that consumer …

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Ending castration success stories: Belgian retailers switch to castration-free

Retailers and food service operators in Belgium contribute to the ending of surgical castration in various innovative ways. Read their success stories and learn what they did right. Belgium-based food …

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Advantages of ending surgical castration

Farmers, slaughterhouses, food processors, retailers and food service operators alike can benefit from ending surgical castration of piglets. Areas where advantages can be realized are animal welfare, feed efficiency, environment, …

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Video: Benefits of raising entire males from a farmer’s and an operator’s perspective

There are two alternative options for surgical castration while avoiding boar taint. One is to raise entire male pigs and the other is to vaccinate. Both ensure better animal health …

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Educational materials on alternative methods to surgical pig castration

The EU Animal Welfare Platform held its ninth meeting on June 22, 2021. One of the topic was alternative methods to surgical pig castration. At the Platform meeting information was …

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Brocéliande organic pig breeders no longer castrate pigs

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Most of the organic pig breeders at Brocéliande, part of the large French pork cooperative Cooperl, have chosen to no longer castrate their pigs. The combination of organic pig farming …

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Is the market ready?

Is the market ready

At the IPEMA conference Gé Backus presented the current situation regarding market acceptance of meat from non-castrated animals. As entire male pigs are leaner and tend to have less back …

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French producers shift to entire male piglets

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Ten French producer organizations will process and market pork from uncastrated male piglets. ln a letter addressed to their breeders, Agrial, Eureden, Elpo, Evel’up, GRPPO, Porcineo, Porélia, Syproporcs, Porveo, and …

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Pig production and pork consumption questionnaire

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In order to collect insights in consumer attitudes towards different ways of pig production, an online survey is created at ILVO (Belgium) in collaboration with the COST IPEMA network, involving …

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Johanna Mörlein: studying consumer acceptance

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“We urgently need to turn the strictly scientific perspective to a relevant and practical one.” Johanna Mörlein is a researcher at the University of Göttingen. She studied agriculture at the …

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Consumer acceptance of (tainted) boar meat

Two independent studies of the University of Göttingen tested the consumer acceptance of Frankfurter sausages made with varying contents of (tainted) boar meat. They simultaneously studied four factors relevant for …

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Castration: The Balkan perspective

A big survey revealed that almost half of the eastern european population is against castration. The survey conducted in 2017, among 5.508 consumers from thirteen eastern european countries addressed consumers’ …

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Modification payment Tönnies uncastrated fattening of pigs into effect

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“From 1-1-2019 it is forbidden in Germany to castrate piglets without pain control. Based on controversial discussion about the right way to do so, there is much uncertainty in the …

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Belgian supermarket chain Delhaize to switch entirely to boar meat

To this end, the chain will cooperate with a network of over 200 pig farmers in Belgium. So writes Vilt [Belgian agriculture and horticulture info centre]. The idea is for …

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France: Focus on castration increasing

March 1, 2017 The French animal welfare organisation PMAF (Protection mondiale des animaux de ferme) currently started a massive communication campaign against piglet castration. The campaign is based on posters that …

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Many questions and great interest in non-castration in Wallonia

On February 14, 2017 a meeting of the College des Producteurs Wallonie took place in Namur, (Belgium). Most important topic in the program was a discussion about whether or not …

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Meeting European Expert Group on non-castration in Brussels

On January 10, 2017 the European expert group came together in Brussels to talk about stopping surgical castration of pigs. At the sixth meeting of the group representatives from 20 …

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Ferkelkastration — Lebensmittelhändler preschen vor

Der Gezetzgeber in Deutschland verbietet ab 2019, das Ferkel ohne Betübung kastriert werden dArfen. Um sicherzustellen, das der in 2013 getroffene Beschluss umgezsetzt werden kann, hat der Bundesregierung noch im …

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Pig castration: will the EU manage to ban pig castration by 2018?

source: Porcine Health Management 20 December 2016 In 2010, the European Declaration on alternatives to surgical castration of pigs was agreed. The Declaration stipulates that from January 1, 2012, surgical …

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Meeting EU Expertgroup on castration in Brussels

The next meeting of the European expert group on piglet castration will take place on January 10, 2017 in Brussels. The meeting is organized by the Animal Welfare Division of …

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Winter meeting ZNVG Impossible to ignore signals in society

On December 6, 2016 a seminar took place in Nortof (Germany)on the complex subject of castration of male piglets. The Seminar was organized by ZNVG (Vermarktungsgemeinschaft für Zucht- und Nutzvie). …

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Qualität von Jungeber, Börgen und Jungsauen

Preventive Massnahmen wie Fütterung, Zucht und die Einrichtung vom Stall sind wirksam bei der Verringerung der Ebergeruch Fleischwirtschaft International 6/2016 Dr.ir. Gé Backus, Projektkoordinator der Wageningen UR-Forschung zur Ferkelkastration sowie Vorsitzender …

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Tagung in Nortof am 6.12.2016 über die Herausforderungen von nicht kastrierten Männlichen Ferkel

Am 6.Dezember 2016 wird in Nortof die ZNVG Wintertagung organisiert. Das Programm der Tagung bezieht sich auf die Herausforderungen für die Zukunft des Branches, wenn männliche Ferkel nicht kastriert sind. …

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Sensory Quality Control of Boar Taint

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Sensory Quality Control of Boar Taint  PhD-thesis Johanna Trautmann, University of Goettingen The concerns about pig castration have led to changes in European law and will most certainly have lasting …

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Castration of pigs in Germany QS carried out impact assessment

Fleischwirtschaft QS has carried out an impact assessment on the consequences of stopping castration of piglets in Germany as of 2019. Prohibition of castration of pigs without anesthesia in Germany …

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Ferkelkastration in Deutschland QS legt Folgenabschätzung vor

November 25, 2016 fleischwirtschaft.de  BONN QS liegt Folgenabschaetzung vor Verbot der betübungslosen Ferkelkastration ab 2019 in Deutschland wird erhebliche Auswirkungen haben – Experten erwarten starken Strukturwandel bei Erzeugern und Schlachtbetrieben …

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Exit from unstunned piglet castration

In June 2016, more than 200 experts discussed the withdrawal from the unstunned piglet castration at a joint meeting of the German Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture and QS …

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Sensory quality of boar taint: an interesting thesis

M.Sc.Agr. Johanna Trautman of the Department of Animal Sciences at the Georg-August-Univestity of Goettingen (DE) published an interesting thesis on Boar taint. The thesis contains a.o. the following interesting information. …

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Tierschutzbund droht mit Austritt

Der Deutsche Tierschutzbund droht, die Mitarbeit in der der sogenannten Initiative Tierwohl von Handel, Produzenten und Landwirtschaft aufzukA?ndigen und warnt vor Verbraucherbetrug.

1,500 signatures against German ban on castration

1,500 people have signed a petition in Germany against the ban on castration of boars without anesthesia from January 1, 2019. This writes the German website TopAgrar. From January 1, …

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Castration of pigs in Germany, many positions but one goal

fleischwirtschaft.de – BERLIN The prescribed stop of castration without anesthesia in Germany per 2019 is getting closer. The development of alternative methods for castration of piglets without anesthesia has progressed …

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Raus aus der Absatzfalle

fleischwirtschaft.de – BERLIN The search for alternatives for the castration of piglets without anesthesia from 2019 in Germany has an impact on the German producers of meat and sausage . Read …

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Editorial comment AFZ about the German ban on castration of piglets

Chief editor Jörg Schiffeler of the Allgemeine Fleischer Zeitung shares his editorial comment on the news site of Fleischwirtschaft.de about the ban on castration of piglets without anesthesia in Germany …

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Campig Boar taint research in Russia and China

Recent results are known from Campig boar taint research among 120 Russian and 120 Chinese female consumers. The study focused on the sensitivity to androstenone and skatole in the study …

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2018 is in sight. The countdown started also in Germany

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From January 1, 2019 pigs in Germany may no longer be castrated without anesthesia. This is enshrined in German law. Major marketparties such as Rewe, Edeka Südwest, Aldi Nord and …

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