Denmark’s new centre-left coalition government is proposing to drastically reduce the size of the country’s pig sector, as part of a clampdown on animal welfare and environmental controls. In a hugely symbolic move, prime minister Mette Frederiksen has scrapped the traditional agriculture portfolio. In its place, the government has created a ministry for nature and animal welfare. After what was described as the ‘pig election’, with animal welfare and intensive pig farming a central, she is adopting a hardline approach to Denmark’s important pig industry, which has roughly five times as many pigs as people. In June, the government published…