DES MOINES, Iowa – As Americans prepare to consume some 45 million turkeys on Thanksgiving, an animal rights group asked the U.S. Department of Agriculture on Wednesday to require more humane ...
The purpose of a slaughterhouse is to kill animals as quickly and efficiently as possible for the purposes of food production ...
Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A California woman on trial for taking four chickens from one of Perdue ...
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 ...
Backed by the Biden Administration’s American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA), USDA aimed to help rebuild local meat processing capacity. Along with stated goals to increase economic opportunities for small ...
The millions of turkeys headed to the slaughterhouse and into the oven this Thanksgiving will receive no additional reprieve from the law. A subheadline on an earlier version of this article ...
Fears of a bird flu-related turkey shortage have sent pre-Christmas wholesale market prices soaring. In just a week poultry ...
One meatpacking worker I interviewed cried telling me how an industrial bag sealer seared away the flesh from her fingers. Another got emotional telling me about her supervisor’s constant screaming ...
HONG KONG — The Hong Kong government Friday ordered the immediate slaughter of 1.2 million chickens--virtually the territory’s entire poultry population--in a drastic attempt to stamp out a killer ...
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — 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 ...
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 ...