McDonald’s Seeks Pampered Pigs Pigging out at McDonald’s will be better in the future, now that America’s top fast food chain has demanded that farmers let their pigs out of gestation crates by 2022. McDonald’s joined Wendy’s, Hormel Foods Corps., and other pork power-brokers in demanding that their pork suppliers phase out gestation crates, which are 7-foot by 2-foot cages that hold pregnant sows before they give birth. In 2007, the largest U.S. pork producer, Smithfield Foods, announced that they would phase out gestation crates because of public opinion that the crates were inhumane, reported the Washington Post. keep reading Image: Pig and piglets in a farrowing crate (Maqi, Wikimedia Commons)

McDonald’s Seeks Pampered Pigs

Pigging out at McDonald’s will be better in the future, now that America’s top fast food chain has demanded that farmers let their pigs out of gestation crates by 2022.

McDonald’s joined Wendy’s, Hormel Foods Corps., and other pork power-brokers in demanding that their pork suppliers phase out gestation crates, which are 7-foot by 2-foot cages that hold pregnant sows before they give birth. In 2007, the largest U.S. pork producer, Smithfield Foods, announced that they would phase out gestation crates because of public opinion that the crates were inhumane, reported the Washington Post.

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Image: Pig and piglets in a farrowing crate (Maqi, Wikimedia Commons)

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  13. kissingforeignfishes reblogged this from discoverynews and added:
    People stop eating this shit and this will stop being a reality. So disturbing.
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  16. xanbars reblogged this from biopsia and added:
    thats cool
  17. indiedrone reblogged this from pute-fran and added:
    Yep, because nothing says humane like “we’re growing you to kill later on”.
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    Cage free, hormone free, or GTFO
  23. jeninbits reblogged this from discoverynews and added:
    I know it’s a tagline to generate views, but “pampered pigs”? I don’t know what your idea
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