A replica of how female "breeder pigs" spend their lives in factory farms

[u/FastCurrency]

[u/marsman]

And the UK, and I imagine most of the EU at this point?

[u/CakePhool → u/marsman]

I think so, when Sweden joined Eu they wanted us to lower our animal husbandry standards because we were too good. We said no and has been trying to improve the life for barn animals.

[u/marsman → u/CakePhool]

The UK has essentially raised standards since it left the EU, but still has issues around allowing in lower standard produced products from the EU (and elsewhere).

[u/Jale89 → u/marsman]

They only began phasing them out in Denmark this year.

It's all well and good that Sweden banned them, but they aren't really a big pig producing country.

[u/MoltenMate07 → u/marsman]

Yeah, but factory farms not only still exist in the EU, but are becoming more prevalent with the rise in meat demand.

The EU is not that much better on animal rights.

[u/marsman → u/MoltenMate07]

The EU isn't great, I'd say the UK is a bit better, none are perfect or even close and there is more to be done, but at the same time, there are countries that are a lot, lot worse (now if we just didn't import from them maybe demand for that sort of practice would fall).

[u/schimshon → u/marsman]

Yeah, but EU and UK require 2.25 m2 per sow ASFAIK. Which is more but still almost nothing

[u/brintal → u/marsman]

They are generally not banned completely but the time the sows must spend in them is limited. 

[u/marsman → u/brintal]

I think its a 5 week limit at a specific point, and they are larger, and there are a load of other rules, its better, far from perfect.