The American Veterinary Medical Association’s Guidelines on Humane Slaughter describe the use of carbon dioxide gas chambers to kill pigs, but when the draft of the guidelines were circulated ...

Every hour, some 1,000,000 chickens, 14,000 pigs, and 4,000 cows are slaughtered for human ... enforcement of the federal law created to protect animals at slaughter—primarily the Humane Methods of ...

In February 2020, AWI, along with Farm Sanctuary, Animal Legal Defense Fund, Animal Outlook, Compassion in World Farming, Farm Forward, and Mercy For Animals, sued the US Department of Agriculture and ...

There are no legal humane slaughter standards for chickens ... Read Why Animal Welfare Matters. Breeder pigs (the female pigs that spend their lives in a cycle of pregnancy and nursing piglets ...

The Vietnamese Pot-bellied pig was removed from a house in the Grant Hill neighborhood on Tuesday and is being cared for at the San Diego Humane Society's Escondido campus. But the organization's ...

Miss Piggy, the 250-plus pound Vietnamese pot-bellied pig removed from a house in the Grant Hill neighborhood is "doing OK" ...