The Agriculture Department’s Food Safety and Inspection Service is proposing new rules that would allow faster line speeds at pork and poultry processing facilities.

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

Updated regulations for poultry and pork processors would alleviate processing bottlenecks and lower production costs.

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 ...

A Waimea business has been awarded a $1.6 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. “This award for a new slaughtering and processing facility is in direct alignment with our state’s goal ...