Achieving welfare improvement for the billions of pigs produced annually requires systemic change beyond individual farm improvement.
The scale of pig production means that incremental individual farm improvement, while valuable, cannot transform welfare outcomes for the majority of animals. Systemic change requires policy that raises minimum standards, market incentives that reward welfare improvement, and consumer demand that creates economic value for higher welfare. Coordinated action across these levers simultaneously creates the conditions for rapid, large-scale welfare improvement.