Today, Compassion Over Killing’s Director of Corporate Outreach Laura Cascada took the floor during the Q&A following a USDA presentation at the Delmarva Poultry Industry’s annual conference to hold the…
Olympic Swimmer Rebecca Soni Joins Athletes Saying, “Not So Fast, USDA!”
Six-time Olympic medalist, World Champion, and world record-holding swimmer Rebecca Soni is all about speed. But outside of the pool, she’s using her voice against the USDA’s reckless plan to…
COK to USDA: Revoke Amick Farms’ Cruel High-Speed Slaughter Waiver
Compassion Over Killing has just fired off a letter urging the USDA to revoke Amick Farms’ cruel high-speed slaughter waiver in the aftermath of undercover footage revealing egregious violence at…
Press Release: USDA Inspector Describes Filth and Mistreatment of “Model” High-Speed Slaughterhouse
…and environmental protection organizations to challenge a U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) rule, and comes as slaughterhouses across the country shutter due to COVID-19 outbreaks, including Smithfield Foods’ Sioux Falls,…
New Exposé Reveals Egregious Cruelty at USDA-Approved High-Speed Chicken Slaughterhouse, as Trump Administration Allows More Plants to Speed Up Kill Lines
…20 plants originally given permission by the USDA to run slaughter lines at speeds of up to 175 birds per minute, totaling around one million birds each week. Recently, the…
USDA Withdraws Reckless High-Speed Chicken Slaughter Rule
…also filed a separate lawsuit against the USDA over a similar plan to deregulate chicken slaughterhouses. Despite the USDA withdrawing the proposal for faster line speeds in chicken plants, high-speed…
COK Update: USDA Shuts Down California Dairy Cow Slaughter Plant – Again
As reported yesterday afternoon by the Los Angeles Times, the US Dept. of Agriculture (USDA) just shut down Central Valley Meat, a California dairy cow slaughterhouse, for failing to meet…
COK Urges USDA to Deny Bird Slaughter Speed Increase
…Chicken Council asked for an elimination of the cap, which the USDA denied. The USDA did state, however, that it would consider individual waivers. But the law only allows waivers…
Animal Outlook and Other Animal Protection Groups Sue USDA over Slaughter of Sick, Injured Pigs
Animal Outlook, alongside six other animal protection groups, sued Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today for failing to protect pigs who are too…