The Save Our Bacon Act, which would override hundreds of state food safety laws, has triggered bipartisan revulsion. But the pork industry wants it so they can keep confining pigs.

The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to take up a challenge to a voter-approved state law banning the sale of meat and eggs ...

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

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

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