Kill animals faster to cut food costs, Trump administration says

Critics fear that increasing the speed at which animals are slaughtered could lead to less safe food and less safe conditions for workers.
The Maine Monitor on MSN

Waterville chicken owner pushes to expand city residents’ right to raise, slaughter chickens

Leo St. Peter claims city regulations unconstitutionally limit who has a right to raise food.
Daily Journal

Trial of a California woman who stole chickens puts slaughter houses in national spotlight

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A California woman on trial for taking four chickens from one of Perdue Farms’ major poultry plants has put animal treatment at slaughter houses in the national spotlight as her ...
7News Miami

Bird flu prompts slaughter of 1.8M chickens in Nebraska

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska agriculture officials say another 1.8 million chickens must be killed after bird flu was found on a farm in the latest sign that the outbreak that has already prompted the ...
NBC 6 South Florida

920 Chickens Slaughtered in Break-In at Foster Farms: Police

Hundreds of chickens were killed after burglars broke into a Foster Farms facility in Caruthers, California, investigators said. Fresno County police said the unknown suspects in the Sept. 20 break-in ...