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ocastration, and 49% for boar production. Differences depending on professional involvement and familiarity with agriculture could be observed, mainly for the acceptance of surgical castration without anaesthesia, immunocastration, and boars. Castration with anaesthesia was highly accepted by all types of respondents. Keywords: acceptability; boar production; immunocastration; anaesthesia; analgesia; online questionnaire; cluster analysis; infographic 1. Introduction Surgical castration of male piglets is applied to eliminate the risk of boar taint and to manage typical boar behaviour. This procedure is painful when applied without pain relief (referred to as “castration” below), which is a common practice in many countries. This practice has been strongly contested by animal welfare organizations in several European countries. Citizens and pork production chain as well as other societal stakeholders have demanded a ban on surgical castration without pain relief and the European Commission set a deadline of 2018 [1,2]. Possible alternatives are the application of pain relief or anaesthesia, the use of immunocastration, or pork production with boars (entire male pigs). However, while alternatives are applied in a number of countries, others have not adhered to this deadline. The production system of male pigs currently differs between and even within countries. Animals 2020, 10, 1758 3 of 25 Application of analgesia is demanded by several quality assurance programs, e.g., in Belgium, Germany, and France (Figure 1). Some countries have a longer tradition of using anaesthesia during castration, such as Norway (by the veterinarian), Sweden (by the farmer), and Switzerland (farmer/vet), while this practice was recently introduced in Denmark (2020, by the farmer) and