Animal rights advocates say the new regulatory regime requires private slaughterhouse employees to make decisions about which ...

Just south of downtown L.A., the city of Vernon is not much more than an unremarkable stretch of warehouses and factories. But recently, one of these anonymous buildings has become a hotspot of ...

A pig appears to have got the ultimate revenge at a Hong Kong slaughterhouse — knocking over and killing a butcher with the cleaver about to be used on him. Police told CNN that the pig had been shot ...

Life may be stranger than fiction, but sometimes fiction bleeds into life. Take James Cromwell. In 1995’s Babe, the actor played a farmer who decides not to slaughter a nice little pig who was ...

The man was working as a butcher in a Hong Kong slaughterhouse when he was killed after a pig, not the one pictured, attacked him. Jo-Anne McArthur via Unsplash A 61-year-old man is dead after being ...

* Egypt begins slaughtering pig herds despite U.N. criticism * Egypt will offer meat of killed pigs for human consumption * Army to be enlisted to help with mass slaughter (Adds villagers hiding pigs, ...

Vegetarians might want to give Adam Martinec’s funny, poignant “Our Lovely Pig Slaughter” a wide berth. Meat-eaters, however, should have fewer qualms. Indeed, there’s a case to be made that the ...

Remember all those sarcastic promises you made? “Yeah, I’ll do [something] when pigs can fly.” Uh oh. With apologies to PETA, behold: Flying ham/ pork tenderloin/ bacon/ mmm. This little piggy went ...

One Minnesota hog farmer sealed the cracks in his barn and piped carbon dioxide through the ventilation system. Another farmer has considered gassing his animals after loading them into a truck. And a ...

STEVE INSKEEP, host: In Egypt, pigs play a major role in consuming garbage, but swine flu anxiety is sweeping the country and the government has ordered the slaughter of Egypt's entire pig population.