The Animal Welfare Institute, Compassion in World Farming, the Humane Society of the United States, Humane Society Legislative Fund, Humane Society Veterinary Medical Association, and World Animal ...

In February 2020, AWI, along with Farm Sanctuary, Animal Legal Defense Fund, Animal Outlook, Compassion in World Farming, Farm Forward, and Mercy For Animals, sued the US Department of Agriculture and ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON (ABC7) — A quarter of a million people want the USDA to stop its plan to expand a high speed slaughter pilot program across the nation. Compassion Over Killing delivered 250,000 signatures ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Farm Sanctuary brought a federal complaint that says the slaughter rule issued by the U.S. Department of Agriculture will allow nearly all of the pigs slaughtered nationwide to be ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y.— A federal district court judge ruled today that a lawsuit challenging a 2019 decision by the U.S. Department of Agriculture to dramatically reduce federal oversight and eliminate line ...

GREENBACK, Tenn. (WATE) — A Greenback butcher shop has been reprimanded by the USDA after an inspector witnessed a pig being inhumanely slaughtered earlier this month, according to Food and Safety ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y.— A new Trump administration rule that largely deregulates pig slaughter operations will increase fecal contamination, diseased pigs being allowed for human consumption, toenails, hair ...