Farm animal welfare standards comparison by country
Table of farm animal welfare standards and laws by country.
| Country | Battery cages | Beak trimming | Chick culling | CCTV in slaughter
houses |
Foie gras production | Hormone fed | Hot branding | Live export | Mulesing[1] | Sow stalls | Stunning (ritual slaughter) | Ractopamine (use of) [2] | Fur Farming |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Australia | Subnational bans | Subnational bans | Legal | Banned | Legal | Pre-cut stunning required | |||||||
| Canada | Legal | Legal | Legal | Voluntary | Legal | Legal | Legal | Legal | Not required | Legal | |||
| France | Banned | Legal | Banned | Legal | Not required | ||||||||
| Germany | Banned | Legal | Banned | Banned | Not required | ||||||||
| Ireland | |||||||||||||
| New Zealand | Subnational bans | Subnational bans | Legal | Banned | Banned from Apr 20, 2023 | ||||||||
| United Kingdom | Banned | Banned | Legal | Legal | Banned | Legal | Not required | ||||||
| United States of America | Subnational bans | Legal | Legal | Not required |
See also
- Five Domains
- Five Freedoms
- Gunda - film
- The Ghosts in Our Machine - film
- Category:Reports about farm animals
External links
- Brits Concerned by Canada’s Lagging Animal Welfare Standards Animal Justice