Source: SOUTHERN FARM NETWORK, 5/14/18

Smithfield Foods officials said they have launched a third-party investigation of a North Carolina sow farm that an animal activist group claims is not abiding by the company’s transition away from sow gestation stalls. The group, Direct Action Everywhere (DxE), claims in a new report that pregnant sows continue to be confined in “torturous” gestation stalls — despite Smithfield saying that it completed its 10-year transition to open sow housing at all of its sow farms worldwide at the end of 2017.

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