In the United States, federal regulations require that pigs be stunned prior to slaughter by one of four methods: electricity, chemicals (gas), captive bolt device, or gunshot. The smallest slaughter ...

The union representing workers at Hormel Foods and the JBS pork plant in Minnesota said the studies “reaffirm what we have long known — that poultry and swine slaughter poses serious risk to ...

Every hour, some 1,000,000 chickens, 14,000 pigs, and 4,000 cows are slaughtered for human ... livestock killed each year at approximately 800 federally inspected slaughter plants, and to a much ...