The bill seeks to create a framework in state law for farmers to process meat at their farms or other facilities beside those ...

In written comments submitted to the USDA, the Center for Biological Diversity stated: “Increasing line speed slaughter rates ...

Washington, DC—The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI), The ASPCA ® (The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals ®), and Animal Protection of New Mexico are dismayed over the US ...

Animal rights advocates say the new regulatory regime requires private slaughterhouse employees to make decisions about which pigs should be slaughtered, both before and in place of federal USDA ...

For many years, farmers in New Hampshire have had problems getting their cows, pigs and sheep slaughtered and processed due to a shortage of facilities in the region. Turns out that deer farmers have ...

Washington, DC—The US Department of Agriculture continues to allow birds to be mutilated by machinery, slammed against walls, and buried alive in slaughterhouses without holding the industry ...

The USDA’s proposals would update processing requirements for poultry and pork establishments operating under modern ...

A plant in New Mexico that plans to slaughter horses to produce meat for human consumption moved a step closer to operation June 28 when the U.S. Department of Agriculture said it would provide ...