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 ...

McDonald’s said Monday it would begin working with its pork suppliers to phase out the use of so-called gestational crates, the tiny stalls in which sows are housed while pregnant. Animal-rights ...

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At about 24 days old, newly-weaned piglets move down a chute at a Smithfield Foods sow farm to be transported to a wean-to-finish farm. Courtesy of Smithfield Foods Smithfield Foods is no longer ...