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 September, at a federally inspected slaughterhouse in Pennsylvania, a pig was shot three times in the head ... we requested that the department make reasonable changes to the regulations of the ...

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 ...

Once a year, residents of the two districts on Tarama Island each slaughter a pig, near springs inside natural caves regarded as sacred, to be offered to deities. The pigs are then eaten as part ...

The Humane Slaughter Association, a charity promoting animal welfare within the food production system, suggests that while pigs do "exhibit strong reactions for a period of up to 30 seconds ...