Rochester, NY—Today, the Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) and Farm Sanctuary sued the US Department of Agriculture in federal court for failing to require humane handling of poultry at slaughter, ...

Rochester, NY—In a potential victory for billions of birds, a federal judge ruled yesterday that a lawsuit filed against the US Department of Agriculture for failing to require humane handling of ...

USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is more than halfway through its federal fiscal year. While it hasn’t taken any new criminal actions, it has reported various civil injunctive actions, ...

Four petitions for policy changes — one from 2016 — have received final rulings from USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS). The oldest petition was from the Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) ...

GREENBACK, Tenn. — Federal food safety inspectors took action against a farm and butcher shop in Greenback after they said an inspector watched as an animal was inhumanely slaughtered earlier this ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. DemKota Ranch Beef plant south of Aberdeen. Despite an Aberdeen slaughterhouse's recent history of inhumanely handling its ...