The public debate on endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) - exogenous substances that have the same or similar effects as endogenous hormones - has been going on for some time. Chemicals such as ...

In a new study, researchers from Uppsala University in Sweden, together with colleagues from the University of São Paulo, Brazil, have investigated the impact that a barren living environment for sows ...

Billionaire corporate raider Carl Icahn is demanding that McDonald’s stop doing business with pork producers who use gestation crates to confine pregnant swine, according to a report. Spurred on by ...

US pork processor Smithfield Foods has increased the number of pregnant sows living in group housing year-on-year as part of a long-term commitment to improving animal welfare. A decade ago, ...

In West Liberty, Iowa, Mike Deahr houses his 3,000 breeding pigs in small enclosures that keep them from turning around and interacting with others for the first 28 days of their 115-day pregnancy.

Smithfield Foods, Inc. is pleased to report 87 percent of pregnant sows on company-owned farms have been transitioned to group housing systems, a 6 percent increase over 2015. As planned when ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Eight sows in the 11th week of gestation were infected intravenously with a large number of virulent leptospires. Clinical symptoms or ...

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CHICAGO (WLS) -- Sugarbeet, a 5-year-old sow, gave birth to 10 piglets at the Chicago High School for Agricultural Sciences in the Mount Greenwood neighborhood Tuesday night. The sow was originally ...