USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service’s new criteria, announced last week, for allowing young chicken slaughter plants to increase their line speeds from 140 birds per minute to 175 bpm are likely ...

Automatic bleeding based on machine vision and robot technology: Norway is now operating the first salmon slaughter line in the world to use such techniques. The innovation makes for more rational ...

Editor’s note: This opinion column offers a differing view from that presented by guest columnist Brian Ronholm in “Eschewing obfuscation on poultry slaughter line speed.” Poultry slaughter would ...

The Humane Slaughter Act was revamped in 1978 when the inspector’s role changed to watch slaughter lines “more heavily for an inhumane kill,” Dennis Ilyes said. Senior Director of Investigations of ...

The Trump administration is working to finalize a rule that would allow poultry plants to increase slaughter speeds, an action that correlates with an increase in coronavirus infections, according to ...

With the daunting speed of modern hog slaughter lines comes crippling worker injuries, horrifying animal welfare and food safety concerns and waste discharges that contaminate waterways with fecal ...

We filed FOIA requests to find out which poultry plants have signed up for privatized inspection — and the list is long. First, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) opened the door to privatized ...