Washington, DC—The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI), The ASPCA ® (The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals ®), and Animal Protection of New Mexico are dismayed over the US ...

Washington, DC—Repeat violators of the federal Humane Methods of Slaughter Act (HMSA) continue to escape meaningful enforcement by the US Department of Agriculture, resulting in continued animal ...

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 ...

DemKota Ranch Beef, a large slaughter plant south of Aberdeen with a recent history of inhumanely handling the livestock, was subject to an upgraded rebuke from the U.S. Department of Agriculture ...

For many years, farmers in New Hampshire have had problems getting their cows, pigs and sheep slaughtered and processed due to a shortage of facilities in the region. Turns out that deer farmers have ...

A plant in New Mexico that plans to slaughter horses to produce meat for human consumption moved a step closer to operation June 28 when the U.S. Department of Agriculture said it would provide ...

Amid the unfolding horse-meat scandal, a New Mexico slaughterhouse has moved closer to becoming the first in the United States since 2007 to be allowed to process horses for human consumption. "I am ...

A Waimea business has been awarded a $1.6 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. “This award for a new slaughtering and processing facility is in direct alignment with our state’s goal ...

— With one success under their belt, it might not be a total surprise that the owners of the first USDA-inspected mobile poultry processing facility in the country would also be behind the first halal ...

In 2022, the shop received a grant from the Oregon Department of Agriculture as part of a state meat inspection program. Processing meat in Oregon can help producers save time and money. The Meating ...