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 ...
© Copyright Agri-Pulse Communications, Inc. Washington, Dec. 22 – The USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced several measures that will better ...
WASHINGTON, Oct. 24, 2013 – USDA’s Food Safety Inspection Service (FSIS) yesterday released advance notice of a new guidance on humane handling of livestock. The document includes voluntary guidelines ...
The Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS), a USDA agency, is amending its Animal Handling and Welfare (AHW) requirements for companies that supply meat from cattle, pigs, and sheep to the national ...
The Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is appropriately handling industry appeals of its humane handling enforcement actions, according to a recent report by the U.S. Department of ...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) Wednesday announced new measures aimed at ensuring the humane treatment and slaughter of all cattle at FSIS-inspected ...
Washington, DC—Today, the Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) and Farm Sanctuary, working with the Animal Law Clinic at Lewis & Clark Law School, petitioned the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service ...
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 ...
A Springfield slaughterhouse that prides itself on transparency is contesting three alleged violations of Vermont livestock handling laws following a case of improperly stunning a sheep last January.