{"id":1107866,"name":"Respondents who consider a farming practice acceptable","unit":"","createdAt":"2025-09-16T11:43:39.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-04-30T12:03:22.000Z","coverage":"","timespan":"2022-2022","datasetId":7212,"shortUnit":"","columnOrder":0,"shortName":"acceptable","catalogPath":"grapher/survey/2025-09-12/acceptability_of_uk_farming_practices/acceptability_of_uk_farming_practices#acceptable","type":"int","dataChecksum":"17230529704722710707","metadataChecksum":"221498655840170680","datasetName":"Acceptability of UK Farming Practices","updatePeriodDays":365,"datasetVersion":"2025-09-12","nonRedistributable":true,"display":{"name":"Acceptable","numDecimalPlaces":0},"schemaVersion":2,"processingLevel":"minor","presentation":{"titlePublic":"Respondents who consider a farming practice acceptable","topicTagsLinks":["Animal Welfare"]},"descriptionKey":["Survey participants were asked about the acceptability of 9 farming practices in the UK. The responses were categorized into three levels: 'Acceptable', 'Not acceptable', and 'Don't know/No opinion'.","List of farming practices considered, as described in the survey:\n* Cutting or grinding the teeth of new-born piglets.\n* Keeping chickens in cages with 750 sqcm space (about the size of an A4 piece of paper).\n* Killing new-born calves who cannot produce milk.\n* Cutting the beaks of new-born chickens.\n* Cutting the tails off new-born piglets.\n* Killing new-born chicks by use of CO2 gassing or meat-grinders.\n* Removing calves' horn buds using hot iron.\n* Keeping pigs in cages which prevent them from turning around for several weeks.\n* Castrating new-born calves by cutting or crushing the testicles."],"dimensions":{"years":{"values":[{"id":2022}]},"entities":{"values":[{"id":372280,"name":"Castrating newborn calves by cutting or crushing the testicles","code":null},{"id":372277,"name":"Cutting or grinding the teeth of newborn piglets","code":null},{"id":372278,"name":"Cutting the beaks of newborn chicks","code":null},{"id":372282,"name":"Cutting the tails off newborn piglets","code":null},{"id":372283,"name":"Keeping chickens in cages with about the space of an A4 sheet of printer paper per bird","code":null},{"id":372281,"name":"Keeping pigs in cages in which they cannot turn around for several weeks","code":null},{"id":372279,"name":"Killing newborn chicks using CO₂ gassing or meat-grinders","code":null},{"id":372276,"name":"Killing newborn male calves as they cannot produce milk","code":null},{"id":372008,"name":"Removing calves' horn buds using hot iron","code":null}]}},"origins":[{"id":8690,"title":"Acceptability of UK Farming Practices","description":"The survey was conducted by Bryant Research, with about 1,000 UK participants collected through an online platform commonly used in academic and policy research to provide diverse, paid respondents. The survey included demographic questions and a range of items on political views, diet, income, and attitudes toward animal welfare and activism. Although the sample was not intended to be fully nationally representative, it did not show strong imbalances across key demographic or attitudinal indicators.","producer":"Bryant Research","citationFull":"Bryant Research - Acceptability of Common Farming Practices. Original survey data was collected by Bryant Research Ltd in July 2022. The anonymized data was shared with Our World in Data in a private communication.","urlMain":"https://bryantresearch.co.uk/insight-items/acceptability-of-farming/","dateAccessed":"2025-09-12","datePublished":"2022-08-18","license":{"url":"https://bryantresearch.co.uk/insight-items/acceptability-of-farming/","name":"CC BY 4.0"}}]}