The ban on sow stalls there continues the progress made to ameliorate the most extreme forms of animal confinement.

In January 2013, keeping breeding sows in individual stalls will also be prohibited.

Veal calves are similarly confined for all their lives in individual stalls that do not permit them to turn around, lie down, or stretch their limbs.

On January 1, a European Union directive came into effect banning the use of individual sow stalls from the fourth week of pregnancy until one week before the sow gives birth.

On November 4, 2008, the company announced a fifth delay due to incorrect fastener installation and the Boeing machinists strike, stating that the first test flight would not occur in the fourth quarter of 2008.

Meanwhile, in America, active campaigning by the Humane Society of the US has led to about 50 major pork buyers announcing that they will phase out their purchase of pork from suppliers who use sow stalls.

Equally subject to human power are the animals that we raise for food, among them sows confined for their entire pregnancies four months per pregnancy, two pregnancies per year in stalls too narrow for them even to turn around.