«The message is loud and clear: the country's largest food retailers do not want to be selling pork from systems in which pigs were immobilized
inside tiny cages for months on end,» said Paul Shapiro, vice president of Farm Animal Protection for The HSUS.
The company plans to start its conversion by phasing more than a million cage - free eggs into its products, sparing nearly 4,000 birds each year from being crammed
inside tiny cages that provide each hen less space than a sheet of paper to spend her entire life.
Not exact matches
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.
When we went
inside, we saw about 70 cats being kept in
cages stacked one on top of the other in two
tiny rooms.
As you already know current law and SB 113 would allow breeding dogs to be confined to
tiny wire floor
cages for their entire lives - many warehoused
inside barns never seeing the light of day much less exercise.