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 ...

We see how the buffalo, which once numbered in the tens of millions, were whittled down to only a few hundred wild specimens in what Burns calls “the greatest slaughter of wildlife” in the ...

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 ...

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 ...