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• Burgerville.

THE SCENE: a fast-food drive-through somewhere in the Pacific Northwest. (the crackle of a fast-food order speaker) Order Speaker Welcome! If you'...

• Alternatives Journal
• Vol. 34 Nbr. 3, August 2008

• First It Was Pigs, Now It's Chicken

This month, Canada's largest pork producer, Maple Leaf Foods, announced it would be phasing out sow stalls in all of its corporate-owned operations over the next decade. The announcement came on the heels of an identical announcement a week earlier by Smithfield Foods, America's largest pork producer. Smithfield specifically credited the demand by consumers and big corporate customers such as Wal-Mart and McDonald's for its decision. The announcements by the pork giants represent the biggest advance in farm animal welfare in the history of North American agribusiness. Ninety-eight percent of Canada's 26-million laying hens are confined in "battery cages," small wire-mesh cages where four or more birds are crammed together into an area the size of a microwave oven -- a space too small...

... Last month, Burgerville became the first U.S. restaurant chain to reject b...

• Winnipeg Free Press
• August 14, 2009