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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The nation's billion-dollar pork industry is now under growing pressure to defend one of the most controversial practices in modern agriculture: raising 400-pound pregnant sows in tightly confined ...
The pork industry isn't united over whether Congress should use the upcoming farm bill to overturn California’s Proposition 12, and a proposed legislative fix faces stiff opposition. This week's Open ...