Washington, DC—The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) and the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) condemn the USDA’s imminent plan to allow pig slaughterhouses to kill pigs ...

Life may be stranger than fiction, but sometimes fiction bleeds into life. Take James Cromwell. In 1995’s Babe, the actor played a farmer who decides not to slaughter a nice little pig who was ...

The Animal Welfare Institute, Compassion in World Farming, the Humane Society of the United States, Humane Society Legislative Fund, Humane Society Veterinary Medical Association, and World Animal ...

A pig appears to have got the ultimate revenge at a Hong Kong slaughterhouse — knocking over and killing a butcher with the cleaver about to be used on him. Police told CNN that the pig had been shot ...

SAN FRANCISCO (BCN) — A Virginia slaughterhouse executive denied the claims of activists that the company is violating federal laws regarding humane treatment of livestock. Jim Monroe, vice president ...