MARSHALL, Minn. -- A battle over bacon is headed to the U.S. Supreme Court with major stakes for farmers, pregnant pigs and the prices Americans pay at the grocery store. The nation's $20-billion ...

The Extreme Cruelty of Confining Mother Pigs to “Gestation Crates” Michael Windsor Smithfield Foods gestation crates, Smithfield Foods/Murphy Brown pig breeding facility, Waverly, Virginia.

With no room to exercise, pigs require less feed. Packed into barns, they warm each other, lowering heating costs. Gestation crates, invented in the 1960s and common by the 1990s, follow the same ...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Smithfield Foods Inc., the world's largest pork producer, said Thursday it is on track to end the practice of keeping female hogs in small metal crates while pregnant at its ...

Michigan passed a law prohibiting gestation crates for pigs 15 years ago, more than 40% of pork production already includes some type of non-crate housing according to the National Pork Producers ...