The quality of animal products is good if the industry is all about reducing costs the cost of meat thats our topic today on made in germany the business magazine. Its good to have you with us consumers have long viewed meat as a mere commodity without connecting it to the lives of the animals it comes from certainly applies to industrial poor production which favors scale over Animal Welfare and that means that pig farms to cram the animals into tight enclosures with no room to move around naturally researchers are getting a better understanding of pigs just how smart sensitive even sociable they are these discoveries in turn are helping drive Consumer Preferences and driving demand for better or humane production methods lets take a look at a farm that tries to raise happy picks. These pigs need an unusually large amount of straw thats because of the enlightened approach taken by farmer Gabriella Miller of x. Mine. Instead of viewing her animals purely as future food she treats them