Animal rights advocates say the new regulatory regime requires private slaughterhouse employees to make decisions about which pigs should be slaughtered, both before and in place of federal USDA ...

European pork processors have to stop cutting the price paid to pig suppliers, the Irish Farmers’ Association (IFA) has warned. The IFA has accused pork processors – including Irish heavyweights ...

Washington, DC—The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI), the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA), and Mercy For Animals (MFA) condemn the USDA’s plan, released last week, to ...

Danish Crown is cutting jobs at two slaughterhouses as higher input costs reduce the number of pigs for culling. The war in Ukraine has pushed up prices for feed and energy to an “all-time high” and ...

Meat group Danish Crown has pared its plans for potential job job cuts at two local slaughterhouses. Last month, Danish Crown flagged 350 redundancies at abattoirs in Sæby and Ringsted because of ...

Following six hours of testimony, a visiting superior court judge ordered Jeffrey Cody Miller to answer to three felonies related to the theft and killing of a pet pig. Miller has been charged with ...

As you might remember, I briefly touched upon backyard slaughter of poultry back in October 2013. While the federal law discussed in that piece does not apply to the slaughter of swine (and therefore ...