The new packaging, featuring the Award logo, marks an important milestone in Fumagalli’s welfare journey, providing assurance that the products come from farms aligned with the Awards’ welfare requirements.

To date, this is the first product line on the Italian market to display the Good Pig Award logo directly on pack - a significant step forward for transparency and higher-welfare production.

The welfare criteria include:

the phasing out of gestation crates in favour of group housing, with the use of deep straw during gestation
the elimination of farrowing crates, replaced with pens that allow greater freedom of movement for sows and enable natural behaviours such as nest building
the absence of practices such as tail docking and teeth clipping in pigs
the provision of straw and adequate environmental enrichment on farms.

A decade-long partnership

Fumagalli, a family-run company founded nearly fifty years ago in the province of Como, has been collaborating with Compassion in World Farming for more than a decade. During this time, the company has implemented numerous improvement projects, working on both genetic selection and quality and health standards, leading to the development of an integrated and fully controlled supply chain made up of a network of breeding and rearing sites under direct company management.

With a long-standing commitment to animal welfare, Fumagalli has pursued a path of continuous improvement that led to a Good Sow Commendation in 2015 and the full Good Pig Award in 2016, the first recognition of its kind in Italy. Over the years, Fumagalli and Compassion have worked closely to extend higher-welfare practices across an increasing number of farms, and the momentum has continued.

In 2017, the European Commission selected Fumagalli as a best practice example for animal welfare management, and in 2022, the company was invited by the European Parliament to present its approach to the use of free farrowing pens. Most recently, Fumagalli was among the signatories of Compassion’s statement to the European Commission supporting a Europe-wide ban on cages.

The inclusion of the Good Pig Award logo on pack marks the culmination of this long-term commitment to animal welfare. It will enable consumers to more easily identify higher welfare products, where quality is closely linked to farming conditions and strong animal welfare standards.

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