A new brochure entitled 'Animal Welfare Guidelines for Managing Acutely Injured Livestock on Farm' was published recently by The Farm Animal Welfare Advisory Council (FAWAC). It extensively describes a procedure to manage an injured animal on a farm inclusive of live transport to a slaughterhouse or transport after emergency slaughter on farm.

Commentary from W. Ron DeHaven, CEO and executive vice president of the American Veterinary Medical Association and a former administrator of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service.

WASHINGTON -- An undercover video shot by an animal rights group at an Iowa egg hatchery shows workers discarding unwanted chicks by sending them alive into a grinder, and other chicks falling through a sorting machine to die on the factory floor.

AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND  -- A man who cooked his pet dog in a traditional Umu pit-barbecue will not be charged as it is legal to do so in New Zealand. Paea Taufu, a Tongan-born man living in Auckland New Zealand was in the process of roasting his pitbull terrier-cross when SPCA inspectors arrived to investigate.