A mobile slaughter operation in Washington cuts travel time for livestock producers. (Photo: USDA) Small producers raising goats, sheep and swine will likely benefit from a bill signed into law last ...

Producers raising goats, sheep and swine will benefit from a bill signed into law this week that eases restrictions for on-farm slaughter operations. The bill, sponsored by the California Farm Bureau, ...

It’s not the slaughter. It’s the spectacle. To settle an ongoing argument with the local government, a New Jersey farm is seeking permission from a Warren County agriculture board to continue its ...

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GROTON — After a Blood Farm employee was seen allegedly hitting a pig destined for slaughter in the head, a federal Food Service Inspection Service inspector warned him the abuse was unacceptable. The ...

A 61-year-old man is under arrest in connection with an Animal Recovery Mission investigation that revealed a goat farm in Sunrise was actually operating as an illegal slaughter farm that conducted ...

"Death and life are so connected. People forget that. A farmer sees that connection up close with a live animal in the morning and a cooling carcass at the end of the day," Arkansas Times Publisher ...

GROTON – PETA, the animal rights group, hopes the federal government lodges criminal charges against Blood Farm after discovering new reports of improper animal slaughters earlier this year. PETA, ...

A roughly 500-pound hog was en route to a butcher when animal rights activists intervened. Now he gets to live out his days at the Associated Humane Society, Tinton Falls. "We don't want to see these ...

A pair of bills in Connecticut could make it easier for small farmers there to raise and slaughter rabbits and sell their meat. One, a standalone bill, would allow farmers to slaughter, process, and ...