The key to understanding the complexities in the debate over the line speed issue for poultry production is to recognize that there is a distinct difference between the line speed for slaughter and ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has been asked by an animal rights group to require more humane treatment for turkeys, chickens and ducks as the animals are sent to slaughter. California-based ...

People are often shocked to learn how little government oversight exists surrounding the way animals are slaughtered in the United States. There are only about 148 (full-time equivalent) humane ...

An animal-rights group is suing California, charging that the state fails to enforce humane slaughter laws in poultry plants. The PETA Foundation says the California Department of Food and Agriculture ...

A UC Berkeley student and animal rights activist who broke into Petaluma Poultry to steal live chickens was sentenced to 90 ...

Farmington Hills — Shlug Kapores will go on for Congregation Bais Chabad of Farmington Hills, an orthodox Jewish congregation that ran afoul of the U.S. Department of Agriculture for its use of ...

The Trump administration is working to finalize a rule that would allow poultry plants to increase slaughter speeds, an action that correlates with an increase in coronavirus infections, according to ...

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 ...

An economic study that found the meat and poultry processing industry contributes $57.3 billion to the U.S. economy and ...