Czech writer-director Adam Martinec has taken on a near-sacred Bohemian ritual in his Karlovy Vary Film Festival Official Competition world premiere “Our Lovely Pig Slaughter.” The annual rendering of ...

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 ...

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 ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Farm Sanctuary brought a federal complaint that says the slaughter rule issued by the U.S. Department of Agriculture will allow nearly all of the pigs slaughtered nationwide to be ...

One Minnesota hog farmer sealed the cracks in his barn and piped carbon dioxide through the ventilation system. Another farmer has considered gassing his animals after loading them into a truck. And a ...

* 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, ...

STEVE INSKEEP, host: In Egypt, pigs play a major role in consuming garbage, but swine flu anxiety is sweeping the country and the government has ordered the slaughter of Egypt's entire pig population.

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt started seizing and slaughtering herds of pigs on Thursday as a precaution against swine flu, officials and farmers said, despite resistance by farmers and criticism from the ...