Washington, DC—The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) and the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) condemn the USDA’s imminent plan to allow pig slaughterhouses to kill pigs ...

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 ...

A Wisconsin court recently found a man guilty of a cruelty offense for the way in which he hauled animals to a slaughterhouse. The hard-won verdict, the first of its kind in U.S. history, was ...

Washington, DC—Today, a coalition of animal protection groups submitted a rulemaking petition to the US Department of Agriculture to require pig slaughter plants to ...

Bob Comis sent more than 2,000 pigs to slaughter in 10 years as a pig farmer. He made a comfortable living and became a close observer of pig behavior. Advertisement Article continues below this ad ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Could you personally slaughter an animal that you watched take its first breaths? Most people, especially animal lovers, would ...