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In Canada, the handling and slaughter of food animals is a shared responsibility of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA), industry, stakeholders, transporters, operators and every person who handles live animals. Canadian law requires that all federally registered slaughter establishments ensure that all species of food animals are ...
A slaughterhouse is being accused of illegal slaughtering methods after an animal rights group released undercover video this week. Livestock slaughtered at Quality Pork Processors is used by ...
In livestock agriculture and the meat industry, a slaughterhouse, also called an abattoir (/ ˈ æ b ə t w ɑːr / ⓘ), is a facility where livestock animals are slaughtered to provide food. Slaughterhouses supply meat, which then becomes the responsibility of a meat-packing facility.
The animal may not be stunned prior to the procedure, [citation needed] as is common practice in non-kosher modern animal slaughter since the early 20th century. It is forbidden to slaughter an animal and its young on the same day. [34] An animal's "young" is defined as either its own offspring, or another animal that follows it around.
Jessica Long’s daughter holds Cedar’s leash. Cedar, a 7-month-old white Boer goat with chocolate markings framing its face, is now the subject of a federal civil rights lawsuit naming Shasta ...
But it's also interesting (and exciting!) to taste test the first offerings of a new era in meat production, which aims to eliminate harm to billions of animals slaughtered for food — and to ...
Concern for animal welfare resurges in the 1950s, resulting in the federal Humane Slaughter Act [10] and the Animal Welfare Act. [11] 1966-2016: Intensive animal agriculture continues to grow, with the number of land animals slaughtered for food in the U.S. growing from 2.4 billion in 1965 to 9.2 billion in 2015. [12]
[1] [2] Many animals are sacrificed during the three-day-long Gadhimai festival in Nepal. In 2009 it was speculated that more than 250,000 animals were killed [3] In 2014, 100,000 animals were sacrificed which was a decrease from previous numbers. [4] Animals range from buffalo to rats have been sacrificed. The temple authorities enacted a ban ...