In written comments submitted to the USDA, the Center for Biological Diversity stated: “Increasing line speed slaughter rates ...

Cattle graze in a field at Otter Creek Farm on Thursday, Oct. 3, in Johnsonville. The farms sells a small number of life cattle and pigs annually to consumers who then have their animals slaughtered ...

The bill seeks to create a framework in state law for farmers to process meat at their farms or other facilities beside those ...

For many years, farmers in New Hampshire have had problems getting their cows, pigs and sheep slaughtered and processed due to a shortage of facilities in the region. Turns out that deer farmers have ...

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 ...