Every hour, some 1,000,000 chickens, 14,000 pigs, and 4,000 cows are slaughtered for human consumption in the ... in actions by Congress to improve enforcement of the federal law created to protect ...

The federal Humane Methods of Slaughter Act (P.L. 85-765) is signed into law by President Dwight D. Eisenhower on August 27. The Act requires all meat companies selling to the US government to provide ...

There are no legal humane slaughter standards for chickens ... Read Why Animal Welfare Matters. Breeder pigs (the female pigs that spend their lives in a cycle of pregnancy and nursing piglets ...

challenges the USDA’s decision to reduce federal oversight at pig slaughterhouses and eliminate limits on the slaughter speeds, exposing pigs to greater suffering and flouting federal humane slaughter ...

Previously a slaughterhouse could kill up to 1,106 pigs an hour. High-speed slaughter is linked to increased humane-handling violations, including the failure to properly render pigs unconscious ...

The BC SPCA has yet to release the results of its investigation. But on Monday, assistant deputy minister of agriculture ...

The animal activists said some of the video clips showed "blatant violations of animal protection laws" and "appalling ...