The inspector, Jill Mauer, works inside Quality Pork Processors, a large Minnesota slaughterhouse that has served as a model for the USDA’s controversial move to reduce oversight of pig slaughter ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Dick Durbin, D-Illinois, sent letters Wednesday to the agriculture secretary and the head of the Food Safety and Inspection Service ... "The apparent slaughter of sick and weak animals not ...

A new inspection report released by the U.S. Department of Agriculture revealed that more than 3,000 chickens died while en ...