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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Costco Wholesale Corp. on Tuesday joined a growing list of retailers and restaurants in asking suppliers to phase out the use of small pens for pregnant sows, as an animal welfare ...

The statement recently from Harris Teeter that it is requiring its pork suppliers to shift to farms that don't use certain housing systems is the latest in a cascade of announcements from food ...

Regarding a guest column by Janeen Salak-Johnson, Sept. 30, “Individual pens for sows' safety”: That headline is misleading. It should have read “Individual pens ensure more owner's profit.” As a ...

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 ...

FAIR OAKS, Ind. (AP) — Pigs cluster around a food stall like Black Friday shoppers waiting for the store to open. One pushes impatiently against the locked door with her snout, waiting for the sow ...

If your sows could choose a style of group housing, they would pick the one designed to keep them calm and comfortable. Electronic Sow Feeders with forward exits in correctly-designed group pens have ...

In this March 3, 2014 photo sows at Fair Oaks Farms in Fair Oaks, Ind., lay in nesting boxes, left, inside a larger group pen, while another eats inside an electronic feeding stall, right. Animal ...

FAIR OAKS, Ind. – Pigs cluster around a food stall like Black Friday shoppers waiting for the store to open. One pushes impatiently against the locked door with her snout, waiting for the sow inside ...