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 a new study, researchers from Uppsala University in Sweden, together with colleagues from the University of São Paulo, Brazil, have investigated the impact that a barren living environment for sows ...

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Billionaire corporate raider Carl Icahn is demanding that McDonald’s stop doing business with pork producers who use gestation crates to confine pregnant swine, according to a report. Spurred on by ...

Kansas State University swine nutritionists are making progress on studies that look at the best strategies for feeding sows prior to giving birth, work that they say will impact survivability and ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Sugarbeet, a 5-year-old sow, gave birth to 10 piglets at the Chicago High School for Agricultural Sciences in the Mount Greenwood neighborhood Tuesday night. The sow was originally ...

Californians approved regulations that farmers say will upend their businesses. MARSHALL, Minn. -- A battle over bacon is headed to the U.S. Supreme Court with major stakes for farmers, pregnant pigs ...