Under new guidelines recently published by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, companies that manufacture pork products will soon have more control over how their hogs are sorted and presented to USDA ...
In February, the United States Department of Agriculture announced two proposed changes to federal rules governing the rate ...
Washington, DC—The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI), the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA), and Mercy For Animals (MFA) condemn the USDA’s plan, released last week, to ...
The key to understanding the complexities in the debate over the line speed issue for poultry production is to recognize that there is a distinct difference between the line speed for slaughter and ...
Coronavirus outbreaks at meatpacking plants have created a backlog of animals ready for slaughter but with nowhere to go. Farmers are having to cull them. Piglets are crowded in a nursery at Greg ...
Third generation hog farmer Chad Leman, making his daily rounds, points to dozens of 300-pound pigs. "These pigs should be gone," he said. He means gone to the meatpacking plant to be processed. But ...