As U.S. pork producers are work to rebuild hog herds, disease pressure proved to be a problem for producers, which could ease potential slaughter issues later this year. Those were the headlines of ...

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.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Police and fire department recover an overturned livestock truck; pigs can be seen being transported inside. For the first time ...

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 ...

Washington, DC—Today, a coalition of animal protection groups submitted a rulemaking petition to the US Department of Agriculture to require pig slaughter plants to ...

PORT ORCHARD, Wash. — A Port Orchard family came home to discover their pet pigs were being slaughtered by a butcher business. The employees of the butcher business went to the wrong address and ...