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 ...

An official petition calling for meat sold in the UK to be clearly labelled to show whether the animal was stunned before slaughter has passed 100,000 signatures, meaning it will be debated in ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Could you personally slaughter an animal that you watched take its first breaths? Most people, especially animal lovers, would ...

Washington, DC—The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) late yesterday filed a lawsuit against the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) for its unreasonable delay in responding to an AWI petition—filed in ...

The Department of Agriculture announced a proposal to reduce food costs by allowing for increased line speeds in slaughterhouses with birds and pigs. This is being championed as a step towards further ...