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Voter-approved anti-gestation crate policies on hold as SCOTUS decision looms on authority of states to restrict pork sales that meet humane and food-safety standards Animal welfare groups and farmers ...

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 ...

Activist investor Carl Icahn nominated two new directors to the McDonald’s board, as he ratchets up pressure on the chain to stop sourcing pork from farmers who mistreat pigs. The 86-year-old ...

In West Liberty, Iowa, Mike Deahr houses his 3,000 breeding pigs in small enclosures that keep them from turning around and interacting with others for the first 28 days of their 115-day pregnancy.

The American Veterinary Medical Association develops and endorses dozens of policies on a range of issues, including several that relate to farmed animals. These policies are important because, in ...

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 ...

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 confine gestating sows for the duration of ...

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 ...