AWI works diligently to improve conditions and enforcement of animals at slaughter. Namely, AWI supports the Humane Methods of Slaughter Act, which requires humane handling before slaughter, as well ...

The Agriculture Department’s Food Safety and Inspection Service is proposing new rules that would allow faster line speeds at pork and poultry processing facilities. Under proposed rules released ...

Workers process chickens at a poultry plant in Fremont, Nebraska, on December 12, 2019. The federal government announced proposed new regulations that would force food processors to reduce the amount ...

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 ...

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 ...