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 ...

For decades, US horses have been bought and slaughtered to satisfy demand from other countries. Only six states have enacted ...

Agriculture Department is barred from spending money for slaughterhouse inspections New Mexico judge had granted a preliminary injunction against a Roswell horse meat company SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — The ...

WASHINGTON — When a cow or steer cannot walk to slaughter, it is called a “downer.” Some have broken legs, while others may have been trampled in the railroad car on the way to the stockyards. Still ...

Denmark banned the ritual slaughtering of animals last year, including halal and Kosher practices, unless the process includes stunning the animal. As a chaplain, executive director of NYU’s Islamic ...

Veterinary doctors are present inside the slaughterhouse to inspect both the live animal and the meat after the sacrifice ...

The key to understanding the complexities in the debate over the line speed issue for poultry production is to recognize that there is a distinct difference between the line speed for slaughter and ...

More than 30 groups and individuals representing consumer, labor and public health interests urged the U.S. Agriculture Department to withdraw its proposal to alter its poultry inspection process.

Cruel slaughter of Australian animals in countries where abattoir workers face poor economic conditions can only be stopped with the long-term ban of live exports. Flickr/Joe Shlabotnik In Enid Blyton ...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - To ensure the halalness of meat to be exported to Indonesia, Vice President (VP) K.H. Ma'ruf Amin visited the process of slaughtering cattle at Taylor Preston Limited, Ngauranga ...