Washington, DC—The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) and the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) condemn the USDA’s imminent plan to allow pig slaughterhouses to kill pigs ...

The Animal Welfare Institute, Compassion in World Farming, the Humane Society of the United States, Humane Society Legislative Fund, Humane Society Veterinary Medical Association, and World Animal ...

Out of sight, out of mind. The adage captures one of AWI’s central concerns when it comes to the slaughter of pigs in the United States. Most are stunned or killed in the steel-walled confines of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Police and fire department recover an overturned livestock truck; pigs can be seen being transported inside. For the first time ...

The actor helped rescue a piglet who fell off of a truck on the way to get slaughtered and named it after the very movie that inspired him to go vegan Alexis Jones is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She ...

Natalie Gray recalled arriving home to a shocking sight last month. A large truck and a stranger were in her backyard. Nearby, her family’s pet pigs, Betty and Patty, were lying dead. When Gray ...

DIMAPUR: Deputy Commissioners of Chümoukedima and Peren have issued separate orders lifting restrictions on the transportation, slaughter, sale and movement of pigs and pork in their respective ...