Brussels, 21/01/2010 (Agence Europe) - On Thursday 21 January, animal rights organisations lodged a complaint at the European Commission against six countries for violating legislation on conditions for breeding pigs.
Compassion in World Farming carried out an 18 month investigation (in 2008 and 2009) in 74 pig- rearing farms in six EU countries (Denmark, Hungary, Germany, Spain, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom), which revealed that “ the vast majority of pig-rearing concerns...