Life is no picnic for free-range pigs.
By James E. McWilliams Monday, June 29, 2009
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The horrible fates of factory-farmed pigs are relatively well-known: They live crammed in drab confinement. Their tails are docked, they're castrated to reduce aggression, and they're stuffed with growth promoters and antibiotic-laden feed. In the minds of most, the humane alternative is the free-range cultivation of pigs, an arrangement that affords access to open space and the chance to behave like pigs. As a system of swine management, however, free-range-even though it mercifully allows ample pig mobility-is in many ways far from the ideal that most people imagine it to be.
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