In West Liberty, Iowa, Mike Deahr houses his 3,000 breeding pigs in small enclosures that keep them from turning around and interacting with others for the first 28 days of their 115-day pregnancy.

Whether those enclosures represent the best way to safeguard hogs’ health or the mistreatment of vulnerable animals is at the center of a debate over how pigs in the $43 billion U.S. pork industry are housed.

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