The federal Humane Methods of Slaughter Act (P.L. 85-765) is signed into law by President Dwight D. Eisenhower on August 27. The Act requires all meat companies selling to the US government to provide ...

The Humane Methods of Slaughter Act requires that meat animals, excluding birds and rabbits (as well as animals slaughtered in accordance with religious law), be made insensible to pain by a single ...

The video linked in this story contains graphic images.An animal rights group released a video on Wednesday it says shows ...

And since poultry are excluded from the Humane Slaughter Act, virtually no legislation ensures the humane slaughter of chickens. A 2016 HuffPost articlestated, “If just 1 percent of chickens ...

Gingerly, she shuffles to the gray couch in her one-bedroom apartment in Thornton, Colorado, just outside Denver and five ...

Currently, federal law affords minimal protection for farm animals in life or in slaughter, notes Watnick.

A spokesperson for Pro-Animal Future, the animal rights group behind the slaughterhouse ban and a companion measure, ...

In the language of our most important federal legislation – the Animal Welfare Act – animals must receive “humane care and treatment ... (“downers”) were dragged or pushed to their slaughter. Geese ...

The very act of questioning our relationship with ... This section will delve into the various approaches to humane slaughter ...

He pointed out that this violates the federal Humane Methods of Livestock Slaughter Act, as well as the “most fundamental” Jewish laws pertaining to kosher slaughtering. Rabbi Genack said in a ...

311; The Horse Slaughter Protection Act S. 1498, Primates as Pets Act H.R. 661 & S. 394; to require the humane euthanasia of livestock too sick or injured to walk and prohibit USDA certification of ...

A High Court landmark case could have the potential to significantly improve the lives of Britain’s cheap supermarket ...