A Dallas-based food management company announced it will phase out pork from farms that cram pregnant pigs into gestation crates where they can't turn around.
Metz Culinary Management joins other big companies such as McDonald's, Burger King, Wendy's, Denny's, Subway and Sodexo that also agreed to gestation crate elimination policies over time. Major pork producers such as Smithfield Foods and Hormel Foods also have begun moving away from this practice.
Metz, which provides dining management services to school districts, colleges, universities, hospitals and corporate offices throughout the area and the East Coast, is working with its pork suppliers to eliminate gestation crates by 2017.
Craig Phillips, vice president of purchasing at Metz Culinary Management, said confining pigs in gestation crates is "out of step with our belief that all animals, including animals raised for food, deserve a decent life."
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