McDonalds To Require Phaseout of Gestation Crates

Progressive Farmer:

McDonald's Corp. said Thursday that by 2022 it will no longer buy any pork from suppliers that use small, controversial pens known as gestation stalls to confine pregnant sows.

The fast-food heavyweight, in an effort to address concerns of animal welfare groups, announced in February that it would begin demanding that suppliers phase out the use of the narrow two-feet-wide stalls that groups like the Humane Society of the United States have called inhumane.

The tide is turning the Humane Society's way, and farmers making livestock investments better take note.