A statewide constitutional amendment to ban the use of gestation crates.
Gestation crates are metal crates or cages, only about two feet wide, that house pregnant sows.
The crates are so small that the sows, who spend four months at a time in the crates, cannot move laterally. Pigs in gestation crates suffer joint problems, lameness, and emotional distress. Pregnant sows may endure up to eight pregnancies before they are spent and turned into a low-grade pork product. This is the first major anti-factory farming initiative in the country. Volunteers are gathering signatures.