Humane livestock handling a recent concern The issue of the humane handling and slaughter of livestock is not a recent concern triggered by videos that shock the public. The issue goes back as far as ...

WASHINGTON, Oct. 24, 2013 – USDA’s Food Safety Inspection Service (FSIS) yesterday released advance notice of a new guidance on humane handling of livestock. The document includes voluntary guidelines ...

The Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is appropriately handling industry appeals of its humane handling enforcement actions, according to a recent report by the U.S. Department of ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) Wednesday announced new measures aimed at ensuring the humane treatment and slaughter of all cattle at FSIS-inspected ...

© Copyright Agri-Pulse Communications, Inc. Washington, Dec. 22 – The USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced several measures that will better ...

Operations resumed last week at a major California slaughterhouse, shuttered the week prior by U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) officials after an undercover animal rights activist revealed ...

The Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS), a USDA agency, is amending its Animal Handling and Welfare (AHW) requirements for companies that supply meat from cattle, pigs, and sheep to the national ...

Washington, DC—Today, the Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) and Farm Sanctuary, working with the Animal Law Clinic at Lewis & Clark Law School, petitioned the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Kurt Vogel, director of the Humane Handling Institute, speaks with meat-industry trainees during a workshop about stunning ...

WESTPORT — Meatworks on State Road was issued a suspension notice from the U.S. Department of Agriculture for how it recently handled euthanizing a cow. Andy Burnes, president of the Livestock ...