Vegetarians might want to give Adam Martinec’s funny, poignant “Our Lovely Pig Slaughter” a wide berth. Meat-eaters, however, should have fewer qualms. Indeed, there’s a case to be made that the ...

Life may be stranger than fiction, but sometimes fiction bleeds into life. Take James Cromwell. In 1995’s Babe, the actor played a farmer who decides not to slaughter a nice little pig who was ...

The Animal Welfare Institute, Compassion in World Farming, the Humane Society of the United States, Humane Society Legislative Fund, Humane Society Veterinary Medical Association, and World Animal ...

A Virginia slaughterhouse executive denied the claims of activists that the company is violating federal laws regarding humane treatment of livestock. Jim Monroe, vice president of corporate affairs ...

"Succession" actor James Cromwell rescued a pig that fell off a truck on its way to a slaughterhouse. Cromwell named the pig Babe after the 1995 movie of the same name, where he played Farmer Hoggett.

A school has cancelled plans to teach kids about the food chain by rearing pigs and sending them to be slaughtered then serving up the meat, after a petition criticising the project gained momentum.

The man was working as a butcher in a Hong Kong slaughterhouse when he was killed after a pig, not the one pictured, attacked him. Jo-Anne McArthur via Unsplash A 61-year-old man is dead after being ...

* Egypt begins slaughtering pig herds despite U.N. criticism * Egypt will offer meat of killed pigs for human consumption * Army to be enlisted to help with mass slaughter (Adds villagers hiding pigs, ...

Pork production in the islands has dropped significantly in the past 20 years. The state is now taking calls for help from ...