The key to understanding the complexities in the debate over the line speed issue for poultry production is to recognize that there is a distinct difference between the line speed for slaughter and ...

Editor’s note: This opinion column offers a differing view from that presented by guest columnist Brian Ronholm in “Eschewing obfuscation on poultry slaughter line speed.” Poultry slaughter would ...

New York—A coalition of animal welfare, consumer safety, and worker rights organizations announced today that more than 82,000 concerned members of the public, workers and allies have raised their ...

The Trump administration is working to finalize a rule that would allow poultry plants to increase slaughter speeds, an action that correlates with an increase in coronavirus infections, according to ...

Washington, DC—The US Department of Agriculture continues to allow birds to be mutilated by machinery, slammed against walls, and buried alive in slaughterhouses without holding the industry ...

DES MOINES, Iowa — As Americans prepare to consume some 45 million turkeys on Thanksgiving, an animal-rights group asked the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) on Wednesday to require more humane ...