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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Jon Henley Europe correspondent

How campaigners beat industrial farming in Denmark’s ‘pig election’

A crowd of protesters and a giant model of a pig
Protesters in Copenhagen days before the March election, where pig farming became the dominant campaign issue. Photograph: Kristian Tuxen Ladegaard Berg/NurPhoto/Shutterstock

Like all new prime ministers, when Mette Frederiksen secured a third consecutive term as Denmark’s head of government this week, she promised her administration would take steps to “improve the everyday lives” of the country’s inhabitants.

Unlike most new prime ministers, however, she specified that her left-leaning coalition’s policy programme would be not just for “the people who are in Denmark and the ⁠generations to come” but also “for the animals”.

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