Report questions Calgary Co-op's animal-welfare practices as decade-old debate returns to grocer

Eleven years after it committed to phasing out confinement for pigs and laying hens by 2018, Calgary Co-op is facing renewed calls from an animal-welfare organization to provide a public update on how, or whether, it has changed how it sources its meat and eggs.The calls for transparency also come seven years after the company last addressed those commitments to the public, saying the full phase-out of inexpensive products was unfeasible.A report published Wednesday by Mercy for Animals, a non-p