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Even though pork is a major staple of the American diet, its production at an industrial scale is killing a lot more than ...

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 ...

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Readers respond to a guest essay and a column by Nicholas Kristof about the meat industry. The Save Our Bacon Act is bad for pigs and bad for us. By Ezra Klein I once raised pigs. And factory farms ...

The Canadian National Farm Animal Care Council (NFACC), a collaboration between the agriculture industry, animal welfare groups, government, and other interested parties, recently released its Code of ...

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