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 ...
Years before the Humane Methods of Slaughter Act (HMSA) was enacted in 1958, Christine Stevens attended an animal protection conference that presented footage of a common slaughterhouse practice at ...
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.
Each year, between 500,000 and one million pigs too weak or injured to stand without assistance — known as “downed” pigs — are sent to slaughterhouses in the United States. The animals can end up ...
Activists celebrate ‘landmark’ animal welfare reforms that ban hen cages and pig farrowing crates - Strategy lays out steps ...