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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 ...

OAK BROOK, IL. Feb. 13 – McDonald’s Corporation announced that it will require its U.S. pork suppliers to outline their plans to phase out the use of sow gestation stalls, a move already underway with ...

ConAgra Foods issued the following statement regarding the use of gestation housing for sows by pork producers: "As part of our long-standing commitment to the humane treatment and handling of animals ...

Don't try to convince the American pork industry that the customer is always right. Thousands of hog farmers and one of the industry's big producers, Tyson Foods, want retailers, brands and ...

Pork processor Smithfield Foods Inc. said Thursday it will phase out gestation stalls or crates at all 187 sow farms it owns in eight states and replace them with "more animal-friendly" group housing ...

Cargill says all the sow barns the Minneapolis-based company owns will move to group housing by year-end 2015, moving away from gestation crates that animal welfare groups have opposed. The company ...

With a gentle, expert touch, pork industry executive Phil Borgic inspects the sow in the tight metal crate. For almost her entire life, iron bars will hold this mother pig on the slotted concrete ...

As animal welfare expert Temple Grandin has described it, pregnant pigs housed in gestation crates spend their days living in the equivalent of an airline seat for humans. Expand your understanding of ...