Farm Animal Welfare

Pig Welfare at Scale and Individual

Connecting pig welfare at the scale of billions of animals to individual pig welfare recognises that statistics represent real individual experiences.

Key Facts

Each of the 1.3 billion pigs farmed annually is an individual with the capacity for suffering
Scale makes systemic solutions the highest welfare priority but individual animals still matter
Individual pig stories can personalise welfare issues that statistics cannot communicate
The welfare cost of any prevalent condition multiplied across a billion animals is enormous
Individual welfare assessment tools enable systemic welfare improvement through aggregated data

Welfare Considerations

Keeping individual pigs in mind while working at systemic scale is both an ethical responsibility and an effective advocacy strategy. Each welfare improvement that scales to billions of individuals begins with someone caring enough about individual pig suffering to act.

What You Can Do

Maintain connection to individual pig welfare alongside systemic advocacy
Share individual pig stories to personalise welfare issues for audiences that statistics cannot reach
Use aggregate welfare data to understand scale while never losing sight of individual experience