A new report, Humane Slaughter Update: Comparing State and Federal Enforcement of Humane Slaughter Laws, has just been published by the Animal Welfare Institute. According to the report, nearly three ...

In September, at a federally inspected slaughterhouse in Pennsylvania, a pig was shot three times in the head, but remained alive—vocalizing after each shot. The facility did not have a backup ...

No amount of oversight can make killing those who want to live “humane.” We must confront the fact that the real solution lies not in reforming slaughter, but in eliminating it altogether. Brian C.

The Bureau of Land Management is urging the public to report suspected violations involving wild horses and burros. The post BLM responds to wild horse slaughter allegations appeared first on AGDAILY.

Wild horse roundups are underway across the West as advocates warn thousands of animals risk long-term captivity and ...

BRAIN signals have shown that calves do appear to feel pain when slaughtered according to Jewish and Muslim religious law, strengthening the case for adapting the practices to make them more humane.

Temple Grandin has become a media star because of the work she does that supposedly makes the lives of slaughterhouse animals better. Meat eaters and the slaughterhouses that pay her and those that ...

GREENBACK, Tenn. — Federal food safety inspectors took action against a farm and butcher shop in Greenback after they said an inspector watched as an animal was inhumanely slaughtered earlier this ...

Eleven years ago, in the small Wisconsin town of Plum City in Pierce County, Brandon Clare bought J.M. Watkins meat packing plant. With no experience beyond what he learned from the previous owners, ...