In the United States, federal regulations require that pigs be stunned prior to slaughter by one of four methods: electricity, chemicals (gas), captive bolt device, or gunshot. The smallest slaughter ...

But such alternatives are more likely to be of interest to processors than to pig farmers or hauliers, because of the initially higher costs associated, said Teagasc researchers, who collaborated with ...

“APL’s position is consistent – we care about our pigs, and as an industry we share the community’s concern for the welfare of our animals,” the industry’s peak body said in a statement released this ...

In the 1980s, I was working on improving pig handling in North Carolina, when one morning, the plant was hit by lightning. There was a torrential rainstorm, a big bang and then a power failure stopped ...