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.

One of the biggest ethical issues in animal farming has been the problem of suffering of animals at the end of their lives. Animal welfare scientists have put much effort into finding solutions for ...

SALEM — A bill meant to reduce barriers for small-scale rabbit meat production has also sparked a proposal to expand Oregon’s humane slaughter law. On-farm slaughter of 1,000 rabbits a year would be ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Kurt Vogel, director of the Humane Handling Institute, speaks with meat-industry trainees during a workshop about stunning ...

There are 11 federally licensed slaughter plants in Vermont, two state licensed facilities that process livestock, three that handle poultry and two custom slaughterhouses. Meat from Vermont ...