Better breeding programs lead to healthier pigs that place a lower burden on the environment. The result is a significant ...

Small-scale livestock farmers ask for new regulations on slaughtering their animals, hoping for USDA-approved 'on-farm kills' ...

to require the USDA to take regulatory actions to prevent inhumane handling at slaughter of “livestock”—defined under the law to include pigs. Under the Federal Meat Inspection Act (FMIA), the USDA is ...

Lab-grown meat isn’t available yet in the United States, and if some state lawmakers have their way, that will continue to ...

Developed in 2004 by the National Institute of Agrarian Innovation, this breed was created to meet the high demand for guinea pig meat across the nation. Guinea pigs have been central to the ...

If hunters take a mother for meat, they may also capture her offspring ... s wings in a pile like leather scraps, also for sale), plus cut-up pigs and monkeys, their faces intact.

Animal welfare opponents will go to any length to prop up their antiquated business practices — to the limits of the law and ...

British pig farmers have warned that they may be forced to cull livestock if the government does not take action on butcher shortages. According to the National Pig Association, a shortage of skilled ...

LIMA, Peru (AP) — Peru on Thursday celebrated two decades since the creation of a genetically modified breed of guinea pig, a ...

The USDA notes that in 1919, researchers Ransom and Benjamin Schwartz determined that trichinae were destroyed when heated to 137 degrees F and that between 1953 and 1954, states instituted laws ...