Washington, DC—The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI), The ASPCA® (The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals®), and Animal Protection of New Mexico are dismayed over the US Department ...

The U.S. pork industry faces a new speed limit on hog slaughtering, the result of a court ruling that worker groups welcomed and industry officials warned could disrupt farmers and processing plants.

BK filed the petition on 28 June 2001 after independent members of BK’s Animal Well-being Advisory Council expressed significant concerns over the lack of enforcement of the federal law. The Federal ...

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 ...