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.

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 ...

May 6 (Reuters) - An upcoming shareholder vote at Denny’s Corp (DENN.O), opens new tab could pressure the company to set targets for reducing its use of pork from suppliers that keep pregnant pigs in ...

The Humane Society of the United States welcomes the announcement by Costco—the nation’s second-largest food retailer—that the chain is calling on its pork suppliers to eliminate their confinement of ...

Surveys show that Americans are greatly concerned about how animals are treated in today’s meat industry, where animals are treated more like machine parts than living, feeling creatures. But ...

Smithfield, the world's largest hog and pork buyer, announced Tuesday that it's asking the independent farmers with whom it has contracts to get rid of stalls for pregnant sows to improve the animals' ...

Animal rights advocates praised a new law Gov. Phil Murphy signed last week that bans farmers from holding mother pigs and calves raised for meat in immobilizing crates. The law sets minimum square ...

In response to a recent letter to the editor (“California’s Prop 12 hurts Michigan hog farmers,” Nov. 23), I strongly disagree. Pigs are intelligent, sentient beings capable of experiencing pain and ...