The UK’s biggest high-end supermarket, Waitrose, recently announced a commitment to make all its own-brand pork products free range by 2027. Some of its products have switched to free-range this month.

Waitrose triumphantly claims that “happy” pigs will live “natural” lives and be “ethically” produced. Yet each of these three adjectives relies on a myth about animal welfare.

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