The process was described to me before I walked onto the kill floor. Jim Wood, owner of Palmetto Creek Farms, gave me the rundown. “They can’t see anything. There’s nothing to hear. I don’t think they ...

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 ...

DES MOINES, Iowa — Federal government regulators proposed changes Friday in the way most hogs slaughtered for meat in the United States are processed in a series of new rules that officials say ...

SPRINGFIELD — Animal rights group PETA parked near Theodores’ Blues, Booze and BBQ on Thursday, playing a recording on the street of pigs squealing on their way to slaughter. People for the Ethical ...

DES MOINES, Iowa — Federal government regulators proposed changes Friday in the way most hogs slaughtered for meat in the U.S. are processed in a series of new rules that officials say improve ...