While some major pig producers continue to defy popular opinion and routinely use these crates for confinement, the Gestation Stalls (PIGS) Act would create a minimum standard to give consumers more confidence in the industry's animal welfare operations
Almost every major food retailer in the U.S. – from McDonald's to Costco to Walmart – has agreed to phase out all purchase of pork from farms that confine sows in gestation crates. Smithfield Foods, the nation's largest pig producer, has phased out gestation crate confinement in its company-owned operations and Hormel, Cargill and other big producers have made similar commitments.
Consumers have also shown themselves to be in support of this prohibition since California and Massachusetts — together with 45 million consumers — will forbid the sale of pork that comes from farms where the pigs are confined in gestation crates. And there are currently 10 states that have banned or are phasing out the use of gestation crates and by wide margins, voters have approved 5 out of 5 statewide ballot measures to forbid their use.
Take action now to urge your legislators to ban the cruel use of extreme confinement crates for breeding pigs
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