Setting pig welfare research priorities requires balancing scientific evidence gaps with practical welfare relevance, ensuring research effort addresses the questions most important for real-world welfare improvement.
Effective welfare research investment requires honest prioritisation based on welfare significance, feasibility, and practical application potential. Tail biting prevention research has enormous welfare impact potential given its prevalence and severity. Positive welfare indicator development enables more meaningful assessment than negative indicator-focused approaches. Research into the economics of welfare improvement creates the business case arguments that drive adoption. Ensuring global south relevance in research design creates globally applicable evidence.