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McDonald's has finally caught up with consumer sentiment on the subject of factory farming and the inhumane treatment of animals. The fast food giant is using its massive leverage to push its pork suppliers to phase out cruelly confining gestation crates for their pigs.

McDonald's reintroduction of the McRib sandwich has made news headlines and mouths water. However, the fans eagerly awaiting the limited-time opportunity to wolf down McRibs may not realize that McDonald's pork products contain a secret, unappetizing ingredient: pain.

Smithfield Foods reported an upswing in profits for its fiscal first quarter Wednesday as costs fell and sales rose. The CEO touted strength in pork and hog production segments.

I swore off pork raised in large commercial farms after reading Nicholas Kristof's deep evaluation of the use of prophylactic antibiotics in animal feed, and how it's causing an explosion of MRSA, a flesh-eating bacterial infection, in pig farm workers and the people who live nearby those factory...

If you haven't heard,the National Pig Association in England has been taking some rather drastic measures to call attention to the plight of the pork industry. Because feed prices have doubled in the last year, farmers in England are losing more than £20 on every pig that they raise. For...