GROTON – PETA, the animal rights group, hopes the federal government lodges criminal charges against Blood Farm after discovering new reports of improper animal slaughters earlier this year. PETA, ...

LOS ANGELES - An animal rights group sued the California Department of Food and Agriculture on Monday, seeking to end the electric stunning of chickens before they are slaughtered. People for the ...

Washington, DC—In a huge win for transparency and accountability, the US Department of Agriculture has agreed to publicly disclose on its website records related to the treatment of animals in US ...

One of the few bright spots of COVID-19 is our reawakened love for animals. Animal shelters across the country have emptied as stuck-at-home Americans foster and adopt cats and dogs in record numbers.

An H5N1 outbreak that recently infected five poultry workers and 1.8 million chickens in northeast Colorado may have been fueled in part by heat wave conditions and slaughtering methods, according to ...

A pair of bills in Connecticut could make it easier for small farmers there to raise and slaughter rabbits and sell their meat. One, a standalone bill, would allow farmers to slaughter, process, and ...

Federal legislation known as the Processing Revival and Intrastate Meat Exemption (PRIME) Act has been reintroduced in Congress. The PRIME Act would amend the Federal Meat Inspection Act to exempt ...

Ancient Muslim and Jewish animal slaughtering practices cause animals needless suffering and should be banned, an independent government advisory group has recommended. The publicly funded Farm Animal ...

Simmons Farm-Raised Catfish has landed in the cross-hairs of an international animal rights group that claims the company’s Yazoo City operation inflicts unnecessary pain on the catfish it processes.

A UK government advisory body has told the government that the method used to slaughter animals by Jews and Muslims should be banned. The Jewish and Muslim religions insist that animals are ...