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Animal Welfare
4:39 pm
Fri July 6, 2012

Hardee's to end use of cramped crates in pork supply chain

Credit The Humane Society of the United States
This photo shows sows in gestation crates. The Humane Society of the United States provided the photo, which the organization says was taken during its 2012 undercover investigation at a Wyoming breeding facility supplying pigs to Tyson Foods.
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The fast food chain Hardee’s says it will stop buying pork from suppliers who use gestation crates – the cramped metal cages where many industrial pork producers house pregnant sows for most of their adult lives.

The cages are not much bigger than the pigs themselves, making it difficult for the animals to move or lie down comfortably.

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Animal House Fund
3:19 pm
Thu December 1, 2011

Aldermen vote to free up money for Stray Rescue

Credit (Rachel Lippmann/St. Louis Public Radio)
Stray Rescue founder Randy Grim carries a puppy to a transport van during a rescue in the summer of 2011.
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A year-long battle over the best way to use about $258,000 in donated tax dollars that were originally intended for a new city-operated shelter is over.

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New city shelter
5:52 pm
Wed November 16, 2011

Board of E&A approves funds for new animal shelter

Credit (Warren Nichols/St. Louis Department of Health)
The city of St. Louis hopes to soon completely vacate the old city pound on Gasconade, pictured here. The new pound will be located in an old vehicle emissions station on the north side.
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The nearly 10-year-old effort to build a new city animal shelter came a big step closer to completion today, when the Board of Estimate and Apportionment approved the use of $170,000 in capital improvement funds to retrofit an old vehicle emissions station on St. Louis's north side to safely and humanely house animals.

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