For most pregnant pigs on big factory farms in the U.S., each four-month gestation is spent in a tiny crate. The sows can stand up but can’t turn around or take more than a couple of steps. Slats in ...

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AMES, Iowa – Pork producers who are looking to abandon the use of gestation crates to house pregnant pigs will have to weigh a series of options to find the best fit for their operations, said an Iowa ...

When you pick up fresh pork chops from behind the glass at Mariano’s, you can be sure the product came from a farm that does not use gestation crates — metal enclosures so small the pigs kept in them ...

The X Games brought thousands of people to Ventura. But this year, the X Games may be known for something more “extreme” than sports. The action sports event was sponsored by fast food chain Sonic, ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Agribusiness company Cargill Inc. has told an animal rights group it is phasing out the use of the small, metal crates that house pregnant pigs. The decision is the latest example ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - McDonald's Corp said on Monday it will work with its U.S. pork suppliers to phase out the use of gestation crates, the cramped stalls that millions of mother sows are confined to ...

(Reuters) - The Humane Society of the United States filed a legal complaint asserting that a national campaign that portrays the pork industry as ethical and humane is misleading consumers because of ...

In early January 2018, Smithfield, the world’s largest pork producer, announced that it had achieved its “animal care” goal to provide group housing for pregnant sows on all of its U.S.-based farms.

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Smithfield Foods Inc., the world’s largest pork producer, said Thursday it is on track to end the practice of keeping female hogs in small metal crates while pregnant at its U.S.

Unlike Illinois shoppers, people in California and Massachusetts don’t have to wonder whether the bacon they’re buying was produced humanely or whether the pigs were kept in gestation crates, cramped ...

WASHINGTON - Agribusiness company Cargill Inc. has told an animal rights group it is phasing out the use of the small, metal crates that house pregnant pigs. The decision is the latest example of a ...