Reviewing international progress on pig welfare and identifying the factors that enable progress in some markets and barriers that slow it in others.
International pig welfare progress is uneven - leading markets are demonstrating that high welfare production is commercially viable, while global majority production continues at welfare standards far below what science recommends. The challenge is extending progress beyond leading markets. This requires both the right enabling conditions - consumer demand, regulatory floors, technical support - and effective international knowledge transfer from those who have demonstrated what is achievable.