Experts argue gestation crates cause anxiety and frustration in pigs, contradicting claims of humane treatment.

Some prominent conservatives stuck their neck out on the issue, too. Sheriff Joe Arpaio, the hard-right conservative, was a ...

People want healthier food, and voters have passed laws requiring better standards for how that food is produced. American ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Billionaire corporate raider Carl Icahn is demanding that McDonald’s stop doing business with pork producers who use gestation crates to confine pregnant swine, according to a report. Spurred on by ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Search online images for “sow in gestation crate” to see the abject misery of an animal confined to a pen, typically 7 feet by 2 feet in size. These pens ...

An animal rights group says McDonald’s is lying by claiming that it is phasing out business ties with hog farmers who keep pregnant pigs confined to narrow cages for weeks at a time. The Humane ...

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 ...

These are quotes describing the pork industry’s standard practice of confining pregnant pigs in tiny crates, called gestation ...