Sentences with phrase «gestation crate confinement»

Mainstream media outlets have echoed the public's demand for change by issuing official editorials against gestation crate confinement.

An American Farm Bureau poll found that most Americans don't consider gestation crate confinement to be humane.

The Retail Council of Canada announced that all eight of the largest Canadian supermarket chains — Walmart Canada, Costco Canada, Metro, Loblaw, Safeway Canada, Federated Co-operatives, Sobeys and Co-op Atlantic — will move away from gestation crate confinement of pigs in their supply systems over the next nine years.

Nine U.S. states and the European Union have passed laws to ban the gestation crate confinement of breeding pigs.

Through online petitions created by The Humane Society of the United States and consumer advocacy organization SumOfUs, a quarter million people have urged Tyson Foods, the world's second - largest meat processor and major pork supplier, to develop plans for ending the use of gestation crate confinement of pigs in its supply chain.

«For a major meat company like Hillshire to take this step forward is further evidence that gestation crate confinement is on its last leg.»

Nine U.S. states and the European Union have passed laws to ban the continual gestation crate confinement of breeding pigs, while many family farmers have been raising pigs without the use of gestation crates for generations.

Not exact matches

«Smithfield's original timetable for its phase - out of gestation crates was already very lengthy, given the prolonged suffering that the animals endure in these extreme confinement systems,» said Wayne Pacelle, president and CEO of The HSUS.

In a landslide 2008 vote, nearly 64 percent of California voters passed the Prevention of Farm Animal Cruelty Act, phasing out battery cage, gestation crate, and veal crate confinement statewide.

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.»

«It is also time for Tyson to join so many other major food industry companies and make a commitment to ending the confinement of sows in gestation crates,» adds Pacelle.

The HSUS is urging Tyson Foods to join its competitors in the pork industry and commit to phasing out the extreme confinement of breeding pigs in gestation crates.

The Humane Society of the United States welcomes the announcement by Costco — the nation's second - largest food retailer — that the chain is calling on its pork suppliers to eliminate their confinement of pigs in gestation crates by 2022.

Costco's decision follows discussions with animal welfare group Mercy For Animals about undercover video taken by the organization at a gestation crate pig confinement facility supplying pork to Costco stores, as well as after discussions with The HSUS.

The Humane Society of the United States applauds Kroger, the country's largest grocery chain with 2,435 locations in 31 states, for calling on its pork suppliers to accelerate the elimination of gestation crate pig confinement.

On confinement, the company is eliminating from its supply chain all cages for laying hens (within five years), gestation crates for mother pigs (within two years), and crates for veal calves (within two years).

Participants lobbied in support of H.B. 6317, which ban the inhumane confinement of breeding pigs in gestation crates, and H.B. 5027, which requires minimum standards of care for dogs in large - scale puppy mills and prevents the sale of dogs from breeding operations that do not meet those standards.