On-farm slaughter has long been a contentious issue in Vermont. Vocal consumers, farmers and their advocates have campaigned hard for the right to raise an animal, then slaughter it and buy and sell ...

Cattle graze in a field at Otter Creek Farm on Thursday, Oct. 3, in Johnsonville. The farms sells a small number of life cattle and pigs annually to consumers who then have their animals slaughtered ...

ATLANTA (AP) – Georgia is the nation’s biggest producer of broiler chickens, but small farmers for years have been pushed to the margins of this lucrative industry because they don’t have access to ...

At Green Mountain Girls Farm in Northfield, for example, the law s stipulation that only an itinerant slaughterer or the animal s buyer can perform the slaughter on site means that farm co-owner Laura ...

Earlier this month, our 16 meat chickens came of size to slaughter. Slaughter—such a violent word, and aptly so. There is little gentle about the process, besides the moment I pause to murmur a ...

SALEM — A bill meant to reduce barriers for small-scale rabbit meat production has also sparked a proposal to expand Oregon’s humane slaughter law. On-farm slaughter of 1,000 rabbits a year would be ...

SHE’S SCHEDULED TO START THAT TRIAL IN JULY. MORE THAN 100 ANIMALS ARE ON THEIR WAY TO A SANCTUARY THIS MORNING AFTER BEING SAVED FROM AN ILLEGAL SLAUGHTERHOUSE IN SAINT LUCIE COUNTY. IT HAS SINCE ...

EDMONTON — Alberta animal farmers are pleased but anxious for updates after the provincial government paused new limits on annual on-farm slaughter sales. Under Alberta's on-farm slaughter program, ...