No amount of oversight can make killing those who want to live “humane.” We must confront the fact that the real solution lies not in reforming slaughter, but in eliminating it altogether. Brian C.

FOX: I was raised around horses on my grandparents' farm, and I was upset to recently learn that every year, tens of thousands of horses are sent from the U.S. to other countries for slaughter.

BEIJING, Dec 18 (Reuters) - China, widely criticised for cruelty to animals bred for consumption, is drafting new standards on animal slaughter to make the practice more humane, Xinhua news agency ...

Scale of exports: Over 24,000 U.S. horses and wild mustangs were shipped to Canada and Mexico for slaughter in 2025, according to advocacy groups. Inhumane conditions: Investigations reveal many ...

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, ...

WASHINGTON— The Center for Biological Diversity, the Humane Society of the United States and the Humane Society Legislative Fund filed a legal petition today asking the U.S. Department of Agriculture ...

Temple Grandin has become a media star because of the work she does that supposedly makes the lives of slaughterhouse animals better. Meat eaters and the slaughterhouses that pay her and those that ...

Kicked, beaten, exposed to extreme temperatures and weather—all too often, animals in slaughter plants are severely mistreated before they are killed. In many cases, such incidents could be prosecuted ...

For the fifth time in as many years, the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture has suspended operations at Wolf Pack Meats, the slaughterhouse operated by the University of Nevada Reno, after it took five shots ...

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