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 ...

The number of horses likely being exported for slaughter has not dropped off anywhere near enough for animal activists. It is believed that Mexican slaughter plants during 2023 took 17,997 horses from ...

A farmer has said he's finding it "hard to stomach" sending his animals off for non-stunned halal slaughter when "alternatives" are available, as the issue is debated by MPs. Mark Weekes, 60, a sheep ...

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 ...

There are a handful of new laws on the books after Gov. Kathleen C. Hochul signed them Wednesday, ranging from banning the slaughter of horses for eating to keeping medical debts off of New Yorkers’ ...

Two piglets have captured hearts after making a daring leap for freedom off a transport truck, avoiding certain death. Today, Dani and Sunshine the pigs, once destined for slaughter, are living their ...

Scientists and philosophers call it the “meat paradox”—a type of cognitive dissonance that can occur among people who want to eat meat but not kill animals. The unfortunate reality, however, is that ...

The world’s oldest animal welfare charity, Britain’s Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA), is under fire from non-human rights activists Animal Rising. A food-labelling ...