In the past, revelations about cruelty to animals during the slaughtering process resulted in actions by Congress to improve enforcement of the federal law created to protect animals at ...

Jeers to Syracuse Mayor Ben Walsh, who commissioned a wrong-headed plan that allows USDA agents to start killing deer ...

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 ...

Of the 2.6 million animals killed last year, nearly 1.5 million were native wildlife species. “I’m outraged that the Department of Agriculture continues to needlessly slaughter our important native ...