Smithfield Foods Inc. has been “very responsive and very responsible in how they’ve addressed the issues” raised by an undercover video at its Waverly farm, State Veterinarian Ric… ...

Top U.S. pork producer Smithfield Foods in 2007 announced its transition to “crate-free” pig breeding by 2022; the switch, involving 800,000 sows per year, will cost an estimated $360 million ...

About 100 million pigs are raised in the United States for food each year, according to the Humane Society. And 1 percent of that pork is bought by McDonald's, according to the corporation.

Several large retailers and food chains, including McDonald’s, Burger King, Wendy’s, Chipotle, Safeway, Kroger, Costco, and Kmart, have pledged to demand that the pork they buy be from crate ...

That’s because of the release of a horrific undercover video shot by the advocacy group Mercy for Animals (MFA) that captures the allegedly brutal treatment of pigs in an Iowa factory farm.

The state bill to ban pig gestation crates in New Jersey has earned overwhelming support for good reason. In a gestation crate, a female pig is virtually immobilized 24 hours a day, 7 days a week ...

Pigs at All Grass Farms near West Dundee were born to sows that were never kept in gestation crates. They’re free to roam their pasture in the open air.

Score one for the pigs. The news that McDonald's will require its U.S. pork suppliers to phase out the use of gestational crates should add a lot more momentum to efforts to end the practice of ...