The process was described to me before I walked onto the kill floor. Jim Wood, owner of Palmetto Creek Farms, gave me the rundown. “They can’t see anything. There’s nothing to hear. I don’t think they ...

DES MOINES, Iowa — Federal government regulators proposed changes Friday in the way most hogs slaughtered for meat in the U.S. are processed in a series of new rules that officials say improve ...

Out of sight, out of mind. The adage captures one of AWI’s central concerns when it comes to the slaughter of pigs in the United States. Most are stunned or killed in the steel-walled confines of ...