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 ...

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 ...

DemKota Ranch Beef, a large slaughter plant south of Aberdeen with a recent history of inhumanely handling the livestock, was subject to an upgraded rebuke from the U.S. Department of Agriculture ...

A Waimea business has been awarded a $1.6 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. “This award for a new slaughtering and processing facility is in direct alignment with our state’s goal ...