Washington, DC—Today, a coalition of animal protection groups submitted a rulemaking petition to the US Department of Agriculture to require pig slaughter plants to ...

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 ...

Here, pigs in cages are lowered into the shaft ... for the first time in a US meat plant. In doing so, she aimed to disprove claims from the pork industry and the gas chamber manufacturer ...

Pork plants can currently operate at up to 1,106 pigs per hour. For decades, the meat industry has been pushing to both speed up slaughter lines and replace federal inspectors with company ...

And processing plants elsewhere across the country also are struggling with COVID-19 outbreaks. "My calculation is that we need to move 2.5 million pigs a week from now until Memorial Day ...