The USDA inspector reports one minute and thirty ... In 2019, the Current reported the USDA cited the slaughterhouse when a worker shot a cow three times in an effort to stun it.

Cattle are supposed to be stunned and rendered insensible to pain with a bolt or bullet in the head before they are processed ...

A whistleblower’s footage from a Los Angeles slaughterhouse raises disturbing questions about humane slaughter practices.

USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) has issued a grant of inspection to a horse slaughter establishment -- Valley Meats Company -- in Roswell, New Mexico. FSIS says it expects two ...

Under the law, the stickers must be put on packages with an inspector present. RI slaughterhouse owner pleads guilty to falsely using USDA inspection stickers When taking photos of the illegally ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced plans to make permanent the New Swine Inspection System (NSIS) increased ...

1. The USDA initially issued a regulation (CFR 352.19) that allowed the remaining slaughterhouses in Texas and Illinois to circumvent the inspection-funding ban by paying for their own inspections. In ...

As a result of the outcry, USDA changed course; its final regulations, published in August, lack the anticipated increase in slaughter line speed and also make participation in the new poultry ...

“If it goes faster, more people will be injured.” Last week the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced it would let slaughterhouses permanently increase the rate at which animals are processe ...

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