The deadline was announced this week by Mondalez
International, one of the world’s largest snack-making companies.
It is part of a pattern familiar to hog farmers who face
deadlines set by retailers to empty crates and convert their barns to loose
housing for gestating sows.
In the case of sow crates, the pressure on retailers and
packing plants was brought to bear by the Humane Society of the United States.
Many of them face a deadline of next year.
