You know, if I were a Dominos exec and I read this article I'd probably stick my middle finger up at the author and keep doing what I was doing. It starts off insulting the company, its toppings and its ad campaign. You are well into the second paragraph before the author registers his/her complaint.

Furthermore, this is the counter argument made by big bad agriculture:

We use gestation stalls on our farm to protect our sows during pregnancy from larger, more aggressive “bully sows.” The stalls also allow us to monitor feed intake of each individual sow and tailor nutritional needs individually. If a sow isn’t eating, we know it right away and can prevent problems from occurring. We also are able to give each sow individual hands-on care daily by using the stalls. Our animals are well-cared for, content and comfortable. Until the animal experts we work with tell us there is a better way, we will continue to protect and care for our sows in this way.

So, with the onslaught of animal rights activism playing out in the marketplace, the decision by Domino’s speaks volumes to me as a farmer. It shows the company trusts the experts I trust. And it shows they trust me. I appreciate that.

In other words, the gestation stalls are not a long term pen the pigs are kept in. They use them when they are pregnant to keep them from getting hurt by other pigs.

Here's Mike Rowe from dirty jobs on discussing lamb castration. He starts off as a proponent of the PETA method of castration (which they don't like but concede is a necessary evil) vs "the old fashioned way."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-udsIV4Hmc

tl;dr The author has no idea what he/she is talking about. This seems like another necessary evil of the farming industry.