DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The U.S. Department of Agriculture has declined a request by the pork industry to increase the speed at which pigs can be processed into meat, delivering a victory to ...

ST. PAUL — On the slaughterhouse floor at Quality Pork Processors Inc. is an area known as the "head table," but not because it is the place of honor. It is where workers cut up pigs’ heads and then ...

Federal law designed to prevent animal suffering excludes 98% of slaughtered animals and faces chronic enforcement failures ...

CHICAGO, March 8 (Reuters) - Hog slaughter at Tyson Foods Inc's fire-damaged Logansport, Indiana, pork plant could restart late this week or early next week, the company said on Monday. "Slaughter ...