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Farming Today - 22/05/2009

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Charlotte Smith reports that many British farmers are continuing to routinely clip the teeth of piglets, despite an EU ban on welfare grounds. The practice - which is done to stop the young damaging sows' teats - can still be carried out where there is evidence of such injuries happening. But Compassion in World Farming says that farmers are continuing to do it as a matter of routine.