The campaign to end factory farming Join the Farms Not Factories movement. #TurnYourNoseUp at factory farming today. Join the Movement It only takes 30secs Follow us: Campaign Alert Greggs, Say NO to Trump’s Toxic Food Deal! Your sausage roll could soon have a new ingredient… ractopamine-dosed pork from the US & Brazil. Ask Greggs to say no! Sign the Petition Find Out More Post Tweet Campaigns & Videos COVID-19 Farming Impact Interviews with industry experts & farmers about the impact of COVID-19 on high welfare farmers and food systems. Find Out More High Street Survey | #PigsInChains Three-quarters of the high street supermarkets & food chains we surveyed sell pork from factory farms. Find Out More Sign Petition Pig Business – The Full Tail An uncensored version of Pig Business is released as US pork giant Smithfield Foods (featured) slaughters 10,000 pigs in Poland. Find Out More Let’s end factory farming We believe that the factory farming of any species is wrong, but specifically focus on pigs in order to raise awareness where there is currently insufficient public knowledge. Factory pig farms can be defined as “indoor facilities in which overcrowding and lack of bedding means that animals suffer stress and disease, are prone to tail biting and have to be routinely given antibiotics”. About Us Donate Guide to Pork Labelling Previous High Welfare Labels Next Organic These pigs can roam freely between outdoors and shelter their entire lives. They are happy & healthy. The ‘Soil Association Organic Standard’ is one of only a few schemes that chooses to “set it’s standards even higher than the minimum EU organic requirements”. Free Range These pigs are free to roam and express their natural instinctive behaviours such as rooting, nesting and playing. These pigs are healthier & happier and don’t require regular antibiotics. RSPCA Assured + Outdoor Bred/Reared Breeding sows are free range their whole lives. The piglets are free-range until weaning, when they are moved indoors. Fattening pigs are kept in light and airy straw-based systems. Previous Improved Welfare Labels Next RSPCA Assured This scheme covers both indoor and outdoor rearing systems. Pigs that are kept permanently indoors have more space and are provided with material such as straw to root around in. Outdoor Reared Breeding sows are free range their whole lives. The piglets are free-range until weaning, when they are moved indoors. The fattening pigs are more likely to be kept in light and airy straw-based systems. Outdoor Bred Breeding sows are free range for their whole lives. The piglets are free-range until weaning, when they are moved indoors. Fattening pigs are likely to be kept in intensive systems unless the RSPCA Assured logo is present as well. Previous Low Welfare Labels Next Red Tractor Red Tractor allows for intensive production and is not a ‘guarantee’ of good animal welfare. Pigs can be confined in intensive, indoor facilities, often on bare concrete for the entire lives. Breeding sows are confined in cages for up to 2.5 months/year. Standard UK Minimum UK Standard legal requirements allow for intensive production. Pigs are likely to be confined in intensive, indoor facilities, often on bare concrete for the entire lives. Breeding sows are confined in cages for up to 2.5 months/year. Standard EU Will almost certainly have come from an intensive factory farm. Breeding sows can be confined in cages for up to 4.5 months/year. Fattening pigs are kept permanently indoors on slatted floors with no bedding. Find out more “Use the power of your purse to only buy from real farms, not animal factories. When buying pork, look for the high welfare labels RSPCA Assured, Free Range or best of all Organic. Go direct to the farmer via farmers’ markets, online or local box schemes.” Pork Labelling Guide High Welfare Directory Tweets by farmsnotfactory Recent ArticlesView all September 24th, 2020 0 House of Lords Votes to Ban Low Standard Imports The House of Lords voted on 22 September with a significant majority (307/212) in favour of an amendment to the… Read More Newsletter September 21st, 2020 0 Say NO to Trump’s Toxic Food Deal We’ve just launched a new campaign to persuade the government to enshrine high food standards in law and prevent a… Read More Newsletter September 11th, 2020 0 Meat From Animal Factories Cost Too Much This week in Northern Ireland, 2,000 pigs were burnt alive in a fire on a factory pig farm in County… Read More Newsletter