This story was originally published by Sentient. When Brent Hershey entered the hog business, he was told that every pork producer in America uses gestation crates on their farm. Gestation crates are ...
Greg Gunthorp looks at hog carcasses in the processing facility at his farm near LaGrange, Ind., on Oct. 23, 2023. photo by Chelsi Daley for Investigate Midwest In 1994, Greg Gunthorp’s father warned ...
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In 2004, John Platt and his wife purchased 26 acres of untouched woodlands in Florida’s panhandle. As they transformed it into a horse ranch, they toppled trees and stripped the undergrowth with the ...