Animal rights advocates say the new regulatory regime requires private slaughterhouse employees to make decisions about which ...

A landmark report by the Animal Welfare Committee (AWC) has called for widespread CO2 “stunning” of farmed pigs to be phased ...

The use of CO2 should be prohibited as a method of stunning for pigs. That is intended to prevent them experiencing avoidable ...

As U.S. pork producers are work to rebuild hog herds, disease pressure proved to be a problem for producers, which could ease potential slaughter issues later this year. Those were the headlines of ...