All throughout the natural world, animals eat other animals. Giant whales eat tiny krill, cats eat small rodents and birds, and humans eat fish and farm animals. Under normal circumstances, there's ...

Halal meat from animals slaughtered by religious ritual without having first been stunned cannot be labelled organic, on animal welfare grounds, a top European Union court ruled Tuesday. The way the ...

A new report, Humane Slaughter Update: Comparing State and Federal Enforcement of Humane Slaughter Laws, has just been published by the Animal Welfare Institute. According to the report, nearly three ...

Washington, DC—The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI), the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA), and Mercy For Animals (MFA) condemn the USDA’s plan, released last week, to ...

New Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) guidance goes beyond poultry barns to cover all animal slaughtering and processing facilities. Previous OSHA guidance only applied to poultry ...

Since Double Brook Farm is small compared to large, industrial farms, fewer animals are slaughtered – and more care and attention can be taken to each one. Nurturing humanity in animal farming – which ...