In Pig Farming, Growing Concern; Raising Sows in Crates Is Questioned

From: The Washington Post | Date: June 18, 2001| Author: Marc Kaufman | Copyright information

Inside each of John Kellogg's barns, long rows of grunting, snorting hogs fill every available space. The rows contain 100 animals -- all pregnant or soon to be. Every animal faces the same direction in a scene of orderliness seldom associated with pigs.

The animals are not lining up by choice: Each stands inside a narrow metal crate. The pigs, which can reach 600 pounds, will spend much of their three or four years of adult life inside these crates, unable to turn around or even lie d...

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