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

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.

Scientists and philosophers call it the “meat paradox”—a type of cognitive dissonance that can occur among people who want to eat meat but not kill animals. The unfortunate reality, however, is that ...

WASHINGTON — An animal rights group that owns stock in Hormel Foods Corp. is trying to pressure the nation's largest turkey processor to adopt a more humane method of slaughtering the birds. People ...

Traditionally, as the festive season approaches, many families across the country are preparing to observe their social and religious traditions with animal slaughter, an important practice that marks ...

Temple Grandin has become a media star because of the work she does that supposedly makes the lives of slaughterhouse animals better. Meat eaters and the slaughterhouses that pay her and those that ...