Sentences with word «crates»

Pork: Bacon may be the favorite food of Americans as of late, but it's not doing pregnant or nursing pigs any good, as many of them are forced into gestation crates so small they can't even turn around.
For the first time in Australia, the plant implements a one - way - packaging solution using lightweight bottles instead of traditional milk crates across the supply chain.
McDonald's, Burger King and Wendy's recently announced that they will require suppliers to deliver plans for eliminating gestation crates.
In 2012, Denny's was one of the first companies to initiate working with pork suppliers to eliminate gestation crates within its supply chain.
In addition to the individual acts of abuse which led to criminal charges, The HSUS» investigation also found breeding pigs confined day - and - night in gestation crates, tiny cages that virtually immobilize animals for nearly their entire lives.
The HSUS welcomed the announcement, which follows a 2012 commitment made by Denny's to push for the elimination of gestation crates from its supply chain.
Working to eliminate gestation crates is best for our company, our guests, and our continued work to improve animal welfare.»
Gestation crates, used throughout Tyson Foods» supply chain, have come under fire by McDonald's, Burger King, Wendy's, Costco, Safeway, Kroger, Oscar Mayer, Jimmy Dean, Sysco and other nearly 50 other leading food companies, as well as from veterinarians, farmers, animal welfare advocates, scientists, consumers and others.
«We welcome Williams Sausage's decision to work with its suppliers to eliminate gestation crates,» stated Josh Balk, corporate policy director of farm animal protection for The HSUS.
Denny's, one of the nation's largest family dining restaurant chains with over 1,600 U.S. locations, announced that it will require reports from its pork suppliers regarding their progress in producing pork without the use of gestation crates.
«Moving forward, we will be requesting from our pork suppliers their plans to phase out the use of gestation crates from their supply chains by 2022.»
The similar announcements made recently by McDonald's, Burger King, Wendy's, Costco, Safeway, Kroger, Oscar Mayer and other leading food companies signal a reversal in a three - decade - old trend in the pork industry that leaves most breeding pigs confined day and night in gestation crates during their four - month pregnancy.
«Target is committed to working with our vendors on the elimination of sow gestation crates by 2022,» states the company on its Responsible Sourcing website.
«This announcement reaffirms that gestation crates have no place in the pork industry's future.»
«By eliminating gestation crates from its supply chain, Wienerschnitzel is taking an important step in improving the lives of animals,» stated Kristie Middleton, outreach manager for The HSUS.
The Humane Society of the United States applauds the announcement from Hillshire Brands, owner of Hillshire Farms, Ballpark, Jimmy Dean and State Fair meat brands that it will eliminate controversial gestation crates — cages used to confine breeding pigs — from its pork supply chain, becoming the latest in a growing list of major food companies to address this issue.
This industry titan's decision to eliminate the perpetual confinement of breeding pigs inside small cages from their supply chain reinforces the food industry's view of gestation crates as unsustainable and inhumane.»
The Humane Society of the United States applauds Bruegger's Bagels for its work to eliminate controversial gestation crates — cages used to confine breeding pigs — from its pork supply chain, becoming the latest in a growing list of major food companies to address this issue.
Since February, other major retailers — including McDonald's, Burger King, Wendy's, Costco, Kroger, Safeway, Kraft (Oscar Mayer), Heinz, Campbell Soup, Denny's, Cracker Barrel, Carl's Jr., Hardee's, Sonic, Baja Fresh, Kmart, Compass Group, ARAMARK, Sysco and Sodexo — have announced that they too will eliminate gestation crates from their supply chains.
The Humane Society of the United States applauds Target — the nation's fourth - largest food retailer with nearly 1,800 locations in 49 states — for wielding its immense purchasing power to make a huge improvement in animal welfare by eliminating controversial pig gestation crates from its pork supply chain.
«By starting to use eggs from hens not confined in cruel battery cages and pork from pigs not crammed into tiny gestation crates, Sonic has taken an important first step forward for animal welfare,» said Paul Shapiro, senior director of The HSUS» factory farming campaign.
Similar announcements made recently by Oscar Mayer, McDonald's, Costco, Safeway, Kroger, and more than 60 other leading food companies signal a reversal in a three - decade - old trend in the pork industry that leaves most breeding pigs confined day and night in gestation crates during their four - month - long pregnancies.
«The Humane Society of the United States applauds Arby's for closing its doors to pork producers that aren't eliminating gestation crates,» stated Josh Balk, corporate policy director of farm animal protection for The HSUS.
Maine Becomes 6th State to Ban Extreme Confinement of Animals in Small Crates and Cages on Factory Farms
«If you're a pork producer without plans to move away from gestation crates, you've nearly run out of buyers willing to purchase your products.
DineEquity, Inc., owner of restaurant icons IHOP ® restaurants and Applebee's Neighborhood Grill and Bar ®, announced it will request its pork suppliers to produce annual reports regarding their progress toward providing pork produced without the use of gestation crates.
Gestation crates are cages used to tightly confine breeding pigs to the point that the animals can't even turn around.
And the top veal and pork producers in the country — such as Smithfield Foods, Strauss Veal and Marcho Farms — have begun to phase out crates and move toward group housing systems for pigs and calves.
Harris Teeter has committed to sell nearly four times the amount of cage - free eggs as the grocery industry's national average, phase - in pork from suppliers that don't use gestation crates to confine breeding pigs and dramatically increase the amount of poultry it sells from producers that use a less - inhumane slaughter system called «controlled - atmosphere killing.»
Sonic's new policy will result in the company phasing - in the use of cage - free eggs as well as pork from facilities that do not confine breeding pigs in gestation crates.
• Cage free: This means no gestation crates for pigs or battery cages for chickens.
The Humane Society of the United States applauds Atlanta - based Arby's for its new policy to eliminate controversial gestation crates from its pork supply chain.
Effective Jan. 1, 2011, the new law will prohibit gestation crates and veal crates — individual cages that virtually immobilize breeding pigs and veal calves for nearly their entire lives.
Currently, the SUBWAY ® brand uses a significant amount of pork from suppliers that are phasing out the use of gestation crates to confine breeding pigs, and more than 5 percent of its turkey comes from suppliers that use «controlled - atmosphere killing,» which has been shown to dramatically reduce the suffering of birds during slaughter.
We offer a massive selection of «those other products» that fill the refrigerated multi-deck shelves, under crates and dry racking in your produce department.
According to its new policy, Burger King Corp. will transition to 100 percent cage - free eggs for all U.S. locations within five years, and only purchase pork from suppliers that have documented plans to end their use of gestation crates for breeding pigs.
«Since making that pledge [eliminating gestation crates by the year 2020], we have continued to survey our suppliers and communicate our desire that they be gestation - crate free by the end of this decade... As a next step, in 2014, we will ask our suppliers for annual progress reports on their efforts to comply with our plan so that we may evaluate where each supplier is with regard to reaching our goal.»
Quiznos, the pioneer of the toasted sandwich, announced it will work closely with its suppliers to eliminate controversial pig «gestation crates» from its supply chain between 2017 and 2022.
Existing facilities are grandfathered, but must cease use of these crates within 15 years.
A ban on new gestation crates in the state after Dec. 31, 2010.
Instead of pen stalls, pigs are crammed in gestation crates.
«Predicting State - Wide Votes on Ballot Initiatives to Ban Battery Cages and Gestation Crates
That's how I feel when the single sign on the what was once multiple crates of peaches reads, «End of season; get them while they last!»
«Consumer Preferences for Animal Welfare Attributes: The Case of Gestation Crates
The pomegranates are stacked up in crates outside my local Iranian store.
A sixteen head weigher from Ishida's latest range, the RV, will form part of a second integrated line, operating in twin mode with two sides filling trays simultaneously for subsequent sealing in the top - of - the - range QX - 1100 tray sealer before being placed into crates using Ishida's pick and place IPS packing system.
Our television commercials shocked Australians, many of whom were unaware that mother pigs could be confined in metal crates barely able to move.
Animals Australia has been at the forefront of national public awareness campaigns highlighting the suffering endured by mother pigs in sow stalls and farrowing crates in factory farms.
The similar announcements made recently by Oscar Mayer, McDonald's, Burger King, Wendy's, Costco, Safeway, Kroger and other leading food companies signal a reversal in a three - decade - old trend in the pork industry that leaves most breeding pigs confined day and night in gestation crates during their four - month pregnancy.
The United Kingdom's Confederation of Paper Industries (CPI) has issued a press release in response to a BBC article about dirty returnable plastic crates (RPCs) used by retailer Asda for home delivery of groceries (http://www.bbc.com/news/business-37847968).
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