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 ...

Canadian farmers are renegotiating livestock contracts with U.S. buyers and finding local markets for crops they previously ...

but thanks to Humane Long Island, two baby turkeys were plucked from a New York City slaughterhouse and saved from that fate. The three-month old baby turkeys—one of which is named Henry—now ...

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

SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — The San Diego Humane Society is urgently seeking new homes for its guinea pigs after it recovered more than 50 guinea pigs last week from an mobile home in Ocean Beach.

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 ...