Doug McClure: "Inside this barn here, you're looking at a thousand pigs roaming from end to end in this barn."
Pig Farmers Face Pressure on the Size of the Sty. (
The New York Times,10/5/2012)
Excerpt: This year, however, Mr. Dittmer and fellow hog farmers are under increasing pressure from corporate pork buyers and animal rights groups to return to the old way of doing things: putting sows in group housing.
Which appears to be what McClure Farms does.
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Pigs in cages, with a side of Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea, for your delectation. (7/11/2013)
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