Last week, the US Department of Agriculture proposed a strikingly cruel policy, even for this administration: speeding up the ...

Animal rights advocates say the new regulatory regime requires private slaughterhouse employees to make decisions about which pigs should be slaughtered, both before and in place of federal USDA ...

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 ...