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 ...

A female pig who escaped death now has a safe place to call home with her new litter after she was rescued off Highway 50. The pregnant pig, who was eventually named Rita, managed to safely leap off a ...

Come on, girl. There you go. You need some grass. Talk about hogging up all the love. But then again, how could she not Pearl Panta? This little piggy is certainly not going to market and making ...

Steam rises from carcasses in a cooler at the Vermont Packinghouse in Springfield on February 5, 2021. File photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger Local police are investigating an incident last summer at a ...

WE MISS HIM. WE MISS HIM ALREADY. ALL RIGHT. A DARING ESCAPE ON THE HIGHWAY AND A HAPPY ENDING FOR ONE VERY LUCKY PIGLET. KMBC NESS DORISSA WHITE HAS THE STORY OF HOW A LITTLE PIG NAMED GILBERT IS ...

If you can always ask, you can always ask again. And asking again is the tactic the Animal Welfare Institute is taking with USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS). In May 2023, the Animal ...

GREENBACK, Tenn. (WATE) — A Greenback butcher shop has been reprimanded by the USDA after an inspector witnessed a pig being inhumanely slaughtered earlier this month, according to Food and Safety ...