Producers raising goats, sheep and swine will benefit from a bill signed into law this week that eases restrictions for on-farm slaughter operations. The bill, sponsored by the California Farm Bureau, ...

A mobile slaughter operation in Washington cuts travel time for livestock producers. (Photo: USDA) Small producers raising goats, sheep and swine will likely benefit from a bill signed into law last ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Could you personally slaughter an animal that you watched take its first breaths? Most people, especially animal lovers, would ...

Protests over a perceived lack of action by the Lee County Sheriff’s Office and State Attorney Stephen Russel’s office have erupted since the release of secret video shot on four Buckingham area ...

At Green Mountain Girls Farm in Northfield, for example, the law s stipulation that only an itinerant slaughterer or the animal s buyer can perform the slaughter on site means that farm co-owner Laura ...

Georgia is the nation's biggest producer of broiler chickens, but small farmers for years have been pushed to the margins of this lucrative industry because they don't have access to local industrial ...

This spring, in Berkeley, a coup almost broke out in a city chicken coop. It turns out that when urban farming involves slaughtering – not just raising – animals, things get complicated. The battle ...