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Convert to SmartArt- Find Paragraph Arrange Quick Styles - Drawing Shape Outline Shape Elferts - Editing LEARNING ATTIVITY Background For the sake of efficiency and lower costs, Premium Standard Farms of Princeton, Missouri has turned pig production into a standardized product-focused process. Slaughterhouses have done this for a hundred years--but after the animal was dead. Doing it while the animal is alive is a relatively recent innovation Here is how it works. Impregnated female sows wait for 40 days in metal stalls so small that they cannot turn around. After an ultrasound test, they wait 67 days in a similar stall until they give birth. Two weeks after delivering 10 or 11 piglets, the sows are moved back to breeding rooms for another cycle. After 3 years, the sow is slaughtered. Animal welfare advocates say such confinement drives pigs crazy. Premium Standard replies that its hogs are in fact comfortable, arguing that only 1x die before Premium Standard wants them to and that their system helps reduce the cost of pork products. Real life problem solving. Students are expected to work in groups, identify the problems and devise a plan to address the problems. They will present their plans to the class Discuss the productivity and ethical implications of this industry and these two divergent opinions 11:58 PM de ENG Convert to SmartArt- Find Paragraph Arrange Quick Styles - Drawing Shape Outline Shape Elferts - Editing LEARNING ATTIVITY Background For the sake of efficiency and lower costs, Premium Standard Farms of Princeton, Missouri has turned pig production into a standardized product-focused process. Slaughterhouses have done this for a hundred years--but after the animal was dead. Doing it while the animal is alive is a relatively recent innovation Here is how it works. Impregnated female sows wait for 40 days in metal stalls so small that they cannot turn around. After an ultrasound test, they wait 67 days in a similar stall until they give birth. Two weeks after delivering 10 or 11 piglets, the sows are moved back to breeding rooms for another cycle. After 3 years, the sow is slaughtered. Animal welfare advocates say such confinement drives pigs crazy. Premium Standard replies that its hogs are in fact comfortable, arguing that only 1x die before Premium Standard wants them to and that their system helps reduce the cost of pork products. Real life problem solving. Students are expected to work in groups, identify the problems and devise a plan to address the problems. They will present their plans to the class Discuss the productivity and ethical implications of this industry and these two divergent opinions 11:58 PM de ENG