The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) Wednesday announced new measures aimed at ensuring the humane treatment and slaughter of all cattle at FSIS-inspected ...

© Copyright Agri-Pulse Communications, Inc. Washington, Dec. 22 – The USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced several measures that will better ...

WASHINGTON, Oct. 24, 2013 – USDA’s Food Safety Inspection Service (FSIS) yesterday released advance notice of a new guidance on humane handling of livestock. The document includes voluntary guidelines ...

The Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is appropriately handling industry appeals of its humane handling enforcement actions, according to a recent report by the U.S. Department of ...

By SHELLY MACUMBER McCarty Family Farms. REXFORD—McCarty Family Farms takes pride in their commitment to animal welfare. They ...

Humane livestock handling a recent concern The issue of the humane handling and slaughter of livestock is not a recent concern triggered by videos that shock the public. The issue goes back as far as ...

Operations resumed last week at a major California slaughterhouse, shuttered the week prior by U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) officials after an undercover animal rights activist revealed ...

Washington, DC—Today, the Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) and Farm Sanctuary, working with the Animal Law Clinic at Lewis & Clark Law School, petitioned the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service ...

Rochester, NY—Today, the Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) and Farm Sanctuary sued the US Department of Agriculture in federal court for failing to require humane handling of poultry at slaughter, ...

Strolling down the grocery aisle, a shopper may not be aware of the many safeguards in place to ensure that the neatly packaged chicken, roasts, pork chops and ground meat are wholesome and safe — and ...