The purpose of a slaughterhouse is to kill animals as quickly and efficiently as possible for the purposes of food production ...

Humane livestock handling a recent concern The issue of the humane handling and slaughter of livestock is not a recent concern triggered by videos that shock the public. The issue goes back as far as ...

Cattle producers are enjoying record prices, while beef packers are suffering under negative margins. The shortage of market-ready cattle continues, adding further pressure to packers’ margins, which ...

Ranchers in New Mexico urged a judge this week to halt the U.S. Forest Service's plans to conduct an "aerial slaughter" of 150 wild cattle across the Gila Wilderness. U.S. Forest Service officials ...

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.

Those who were “cowboys” were more often found in South and West Texas, and the trope that Hollywood and pulp fiction novels created around the “cowboy” hardly represented the true nature of the work ...