Pig welfare inspections aim to identify risk factors
Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM), Pippa Hackett updated the Seanad last week regarding pig welfare inspections and commercial pig farms in Ireland. This was during a Green Party motion on animal welfare. The minister commented that the DAFM had implemented several specific actions over the last two years to progress full implementation of the pig welfare directive. “Since 2020, the DAFM has…