WASHINGTON (ABC7) — A quarter of a million people want the USDA to stop its plan to expand a high speed slaughter pilot program across the nation. Compassion Over Killing delivered 250,000 signatures ...

Pigs have been kept in appalling conditions at a pig farm in the eastern Spanish province of Teruel, said activists who ...

Kicked, beaten, exposed to extreme temperatures and weather—all too often, animals in slaughter plants are severely mistreated before they are killed. In many cases, such incidents could be prosecuted ...

Animal rights advocates say the new regulatory regime requires private slaughterhouse employees to make decisions about which pigs should be slaughtered, both before and in place of federal USDA ...

No amount of oversight can make killing those who want to live “humane.” We must confront the fact that the real solution lies not in reforming slaughter, but in eliminating it altogether. Brian C.

Angry bright red welts, criss-crossing a pig’s skin. Dark stretches of bruising as large as three human hands. Deep gashes that could only have been delivered with a blunt object, wielded with force.

A traveling exhibit organized by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals is scheduled to stop in Springfield this week as part of a nationwide campaign.