Republican Sen. Frank Niceley is bucking his local county commission and helping a family member and other farmers with a new bill exempting small slaughterhouses from local regulation. The Jefferson ...
One of the few bright spots of COVID-19 is our reawakened love for animals. Animal shelters across the country have emptied as stuck-at-home Americans foster and adopt cats and dogs in record numbers.
On a blistering-hot Wednesday in June, community members walked toward an 18-wheeler that had just arrived at Superior Farms, a lamb slaughterhouse in Denver. A few dozen individuals stood on the ...
The much-talked of state-owned experimental abattoirs have not been built ...
Victory — In response to lawsuits, EPA begins process of mandating pollution reductions. WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed new water pollution control ...
It’s not exactly revelatory to say that slaughterhouses cause pain; they’re killing factories, after all. But the scope of this pain, and the number of animals and people it impacts, isn’t immediately ...
The problem of kids working in dangerous slaughterhouses continues to be a concern as the Labor Department announced its third agreement this week with a company in the industry agreeing to pay a ...