Humane livestock handling a recent concern The issue of the humane handling and slaughter of livestock is not a recent concern triggered by videos that shock the public. The issue goes back as far as ...

© Copyright Agri-Pulse Communications, Inc. Washington, Dec. 22 – The USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced several measures that will better ...

WASHINGTON, Oct. 24, 2013 – USDA’s Food Safety Inspection Service (FSIS) yesterday released advance notice of a new guidance on humane handling of livestock. The document includes voluntary guidelines ...

The Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS), a USDA agency, is amending its Animal Handling and Welfare (AHW) requirements for companies that supply meat from cattle, pigs, and sheep to the national ...

The Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is appropriately handling industry appeals of its humane handling enforcement actions, according to a recent report by the U.S. Department of ...

Strolling down the grocery aisle, a shopper may not be aware of the many safeguards in place to ensure that the neatly packaged chicken, roasts, pork chops and ground meat are wholesome and safe — and ...

— -- Four of 18 beef slaughterhouses that supply the nation's school lunch program were cited for inhumane treatment of cattle in a recent federal audit, and one was temporarily shut down. The ...

Washington, DC—Today, the Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) and Farm Sanctuary, working with the Animal Law Clinic at Lewis & Clark Law School, petitioned the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service ...

SHREWSBURY – Federal authorities allowed Catelli Brothers to reopen more than a week after it shut down the slaughterhouse after claims of inhumane animal handling. The USDA's Food Safety and ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) Wednesday announced new measures aimed at ensuring the humane treatment and slaughter of all cattle at FSIS-inspected ...

Eleven years ago, in the small Wisconsin town of Plum City in Pierce County, Brandon Clare bought J.M. Watkins meat packing plant. With no experience beyond what he learned from the previous owners, ...

In a close corner of a cattle pen, Temple Grandin sits on the dusty ground. Her legs drawn in, her eyes all but shut, she silently waits for nearby cows to sniff her out. After a few minutes, they ...