Every hour, some 1,000,000 chickens, 14,000 pigs, and 4,000 cows are slaughtered for human ... Federal and State Oversight of the Welfare of Farm Animals at Slaughter. Read AWI's petitions to the USDA ...

In February 2020, AWI, along with Farm Sanctuary, Animal Legal Defense Fund ... which asked the department to end the cruel practice of allowing the slaughter of pigs who are unable to walk or move on ...

Around 250 farms in Switzerland prefer to kill their livestock on the farm rather than taking them to the abattoir. Farmers prefer this method, which ...

Some already have farms bigger than this one, having started from scratch,” she says. However, for Niyoyita, the biggest enablers of her business are people who come to buy pigs to slaughter ...

Breeder pigs (the female pigs that spend their ... the standards are highly verified. Each farm and slaughterhouse is inspected annually by an independent certifying agency using trained inspectors.

The Yucatán Peninsula currently has approximately 257 registered industrial pig farms that produce more than 1 million animals a year for slaughter, 14% of Mexico’s production capacity. Of those ...

Authorities have already had to slaughter thousands of cattle and strict measures to control the epidemic are in place in both countries. #EuropeNews ...

The pigs receive an electric shock ... The carcass is then taken to a slaughterhouse for processing. To practise on-farm slaughtering, farms must obtain authorisation from the canton and carry ...