AWI and Farm Sanctuary, working with the Animal Law Clinic at Lewis & Clark Law School, have petitioned the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) to develop regulations governing the handling of ...

Washington, DC—The US Department of Agriculture continues to allow birds to be mutilated by machinery, slammed against walls, and buried alive in slaughterhouses without holding the industry ...

On October 15, 2024, OSHA issued Inspection Guidance for Animal Slaughtering and Processing Establishments that updates enforcement protocols for the agency’s field staff and compliance guidance for ...

The Russell County Butchery submitted a petition that USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) took in on Sept. 5. It requests that FSIS change the guidance for determining whether a poultry ...

Several animal welfare groups and the Government Accountability Project have filed a lawsuit over the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s 2018 increase of poultry slaughter line speed limits. In ...

Law360 (April 16, 2025, 9:48 PM EDT) -- The Pennsylvania Superior Court has ruled that an animal rights group cannot force a Lebanon County poultry farm to disclose its chicken slaughtering practices, ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) proposed new regulations on ...

A WOMAN ON TRIAL FOR TAKING four chickens from one of Perdue Farms' major poultry plants has put animal treatment at slaughter houses in the national spotlight as her defense team argues she rescued ...

WASHINGTON — Two animal welfare groups and dozens of lawmakers are urging the Obama administration to improve humane treatment of poultry at slaughterhouses, citing statistics that show hundreds of ...

Federally inspected US slaughter rates for livestock and poultry rose during the latest week, although the cattle and hog slaughter was down significantly from a year earlier, according to US ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A California woman on trial for taking four chickens from one of Perdue Farms’ major poultry plants has put animal treatment at slaughter houses in the national spotlight as her ...