Animal rights group Mercy For Animals has released a video alleging animal abuse at a Country View Family Farms hog facility in Fannettsburg, Penn., which supplies hogs to pork processor Hatfield Quality Meats. An MFA employee who applied for a job at the farm wore a hidden camera while he worked inside the pig barns for three months earlier this year.

Students and community members were forced to consider the ethical repercussions of their diets Friday afternoon. "When we think about ethics, we think about money, stealing, cheating and sex," Peter Singer said. "But nothing that we do twice, thrice daily has as big of an ethical impact as our food choices do."

The World Society for the Protection of Animals has condemned the Federal Government for allowing the ritual slaughter of conscious animals for halal and kosher meat to continue in Australian abattoirs.

U.S. Department of Agriculture inspectors were giving University of Utah animal-research labs a thumbs up at the very time an "undercover" animal-rights activist claims she was documenting miserable conditions and illegal treatment of animals inside two U. facilities.

It comes as no surprise that the Humane Society of the United States was miffed by Ohio’s passage Tuesday of the state’s Issue Two measure, by a substantial margin. It also will be no surprise that HSUS will fail to grasp the message contained in the measure’s passage.

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Agriculture Department and the Vermont state agriculture agency said they pulled operating licenses on Friday for a Vermont slaughter plant after viewing footage of mistreated veal calves.

“The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Vermont Agency of Agriculture today suspended their respective licenses and thereby ceased operations at the Bushways Slaughterhouse facility in Grand Isle, Vermont.

OTTAWA -– Chickens cannot vote and there are no pigs on the list of registered lobbyists, but a Quebec Liberal MP is rushing to the aid of tired and thirsty livestock on their way to your plate.

Animal rights activists are going after DineEquity Inc., the Glendale parent of the IHOP and Applebee's restaurant chains. They want the restaurant company to start buying eggs from suppliers that they believe treat chickens in a more humane fashion.

FRESNO, Calif. -- California cows are the first in the nation with the legal right to swat flies as nature intended now that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed a bill banning the painful practice of tail docking that he once mocked as being a waste of legislators' time.