🌎 North America May 15, 2026 · Kenny Torrella

Millions of people voted for these animal welfare laws. Congress is trying to overturn them.

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Last year, nearly 130 million pigs were raised for meat in the US, but they didn’t come out of nowhere; they had parents. Or as pork producers call them, “breeder pigs.”  Since the 1970s, producers have been keeping most of the breeding females — known as sows — in tiny enclosures called gestation crates. It’s […]

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