America's largest private corporation — rocked the food world when it announced plans to eliminate gestation crates from its supply system. Gestation crates are tiny cages that confine pigs so restrictively they can barely move an inch during their entire lives. The life cycle of a confined breeding sow is as such: the animal is locked inside a gestation crate and impregnated. She spends a few short weeks weaning her piglets there, is re-impregnated and put back into a gestation crate.
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