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.

WASHINGTON — An animal rights group that owns stock in Hormel Foods Corp. is trying to pressure the nation's largest turkey processor to adopt a more humane method of slaughtering the birds. People ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON— The Center for Biological Diversity, the Humane Society of the United States and the Humane Society Legislative Fund filed a legal petition today asking the U.S. Department of Agriculture ...

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, ...

OR STRUCTURALLY SOUND FOR THE PUBLIC. WELL, THIS AFTERNOON, A NORTH SHORE COMMUNITY IS RALLYING AROUND TWO WOMEN AFTER THEIR GOATS WERE REPORTEDLY STOLEN, WITH ONE NOW DEAD AND ANOTHER MISSING A ...

In a recent post, I discussed a paper I published with Heather Browning in the journal Animals on whether humane animal slaughter is possible. Since I have received numerous replies, I would like this ...

NEW YORK, NY – Humane Long Island rescued two young turkeys and a rabbit from New York City live animal markets this week, ...

Things that make me cringe: a cow standing in line awaiting its turn to be slaughtered, a hog being boiled alive, and a pig receiving electrical shocks to die from an intense seizure. I’ve been ...

The federally ordered two-day suspension came after a USDA inspector saw Tooele Valley Meat's owner cut the hoof off a ...