Mr. Buffett's companies send people to peddle vacuum cleaners and avocado peelers in homes, and dispatch others to offer egg collectors and pig - breeding
crates on farms.
Not exact matches
The restaurant company said that by next month all of its pork supply will be fed only a vegetarian diet, never be given any antibiotics, and that the
farms that supply its pigs will not use gestation
crates on pregnant sows.
For the past 10 years, the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) has focused
on bringing an end to the confinement of
farm animals, mainly pigs and young cows (future veal) who are kept in
crates without room to turn around, and the egg - laying hens kept in cages too small to spread their wings.
The measure bans the intensive confinement of breeding pigs and veal calves in tiny
crates on corporate factory
farms, where the animals can not turn around or stretch their limbs.
The estimated 16,000 breeding pigs now housed
on factory
farms in Arizona are kept in gestation
crates which prevent them from engaging in natural behaviors.
Maine Becomes 6th State to Ban Extreme Confinement of Animals in Small
Crates and Cages
on Factory
Farms
To answer that question, one needn't look any further than the dozens of damning undercover investigations into agribusiness operations released over the last several years: chickens crammed so tightly into tiny cages that they can't even spread their wings, living in the same space with the rotting corpses of their cage - mates; mother pigs unable to even turn around for months
on end inside their gestation
crates; factory
farm workers sadistically abusing animals; and more.
Two of the country's largest pork producers — Smithfield
Farms and Tyson Foods — have just announced they want to get rid of gestation crates, small narrow stalls used to confine mother pigs on factory f
Farms and Tyson Foods — have just announced they want to get rid of gestation
crates, small narrow stalls used to confine mother pigs
on factory
farmsfarms.
Oprah had replica cages and
crates on the stage to demonstrate the cage / pen sizes of animals in factory
farms.
An HSUS investigator documented the suffering endured by female breeding pigs held in severely restrictive gestation
crates on a factory
farm operated by a subsidiary of Smithfield Foods, the world's largest pork producer
Partly too it's a result of the dog
farm environment, where dogs live
crated or chained, and anyone putting their hands
on you was likely a sign that it was your turn to be slaughtered or taken to market.
The Wooden
Crate is the retreat's
on - site restaurant with daily
farm - to - table meals, and they are able to accommodate special diets.