RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Smithfield Foods Inc., the world’s largest pork producer, said Thursday it is on track to end the practice of keeping female hogs in small metal crates while pregnant at its U.S.

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 ...

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 ...

In early January 2018, Smithfield, the world’s largest pork producer, announced that it had achieved its “animal care” goal to provide group housing for pregnant sows on all of its U.S.-based farms.

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When you pick up fresh pork chops from behind the glass at Mariano’s, you can be sure the product came from a farm that does not use gestation crates — metal enclosures so small the pigs kept in them ...

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NEW YORK, Jan 25 (Reuters) - Smithfield Foods Inc. , the nation's largest pork producer, plans to announce that it will phase out gestation crates at its company-owned sow farms over the next decade, ...

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 ...

Since the 1970s, gestation crates have been standard housing in most hog-breeding facilities nationwide. For the nearly four-month duration of her pregnancy, each sow lives, eats, and sleeps in a ...

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 ...