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The Midwest grocer announced it will work closely with its suppliers to phase out the use of pig gestation crates from its supply chain by 2022.

DineEquity, Inc., the parent company of restaurant brands IHOP and Applebee’s, announced a new policy that will eliminate the use of gestation crates from its pork supply chain for its more than 3,500 restaurants.

At the end of 2012 it had successfully transitioned 38% of pregnant sows on its company-owned farms in the United States from individual gestation stalls to group housing systems.