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Photo Of The Day: McDonald's Embraces Humane

McDonald's Corp. said Monday, Feb. 13, 2012, it will require its U.S. pork suppliers to provide plans by May to phase out the use of stalls that confine pregnant sows. Smithfield Foods had already announced plans to phase out the stalls.

Feb 14, 2012
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(AP) — In this Nov. 28, 2010 file photo provided by The Humane Society of the United States, female breeding pigs are in gestation crates at a Virginia factory farm owned by a subsidiary of Smithfield Foods in Waverly, Va.

McDonald's Corp. said Monday, Feb. 13, 2012, it will require its U.S. pork suppliers to provide plans by May to phase out the use of stalls that confine pregnant sows. Smithfield Foods had already announced plans to phase out the stalls. (AP Photo/The Humane Society of the United States, File)