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Letter: Best way to help pigs isn't an AI, but a change of diet

Published 26 May 2021

From Greg Billington, Picton, New Zealand

So AI can read emotional states in the facial expressions of cattle and pigs (1 May, p 14). It is suggested that this technology will enable farmers to improve animal well-being by reducing stressful husbandry.

Despite coming from a farming family and having been a hunter for many years, the best possible way to improve animal well-being is to simply not eat them.

Issue no. 3336 published 29 May 2021

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