The key to understanding the complexities in the debate over the line speed issue for poultry production is to recognize that there is a distinct difference between the line speed for slaughter and ...

Last week, the US Department of Agriculture proposed a strikingly cruel policy, even for this administration: speeding up the ...

Automatic bleeding based on machine vision and robot technology: Norway is now operating the first salmon slaughter line in the world to use such techniques. The innovation makes for more rational ...

Editor’s note: This opinion column offers a differing view from that presented by guest columnist Brian Ronholm in “Eschewing obfuscation on poultry slaughter line speed.” Poultry slaughter would ...

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Critics fear that increasing the speed at which animals are slaughtered could lead to less safe food and less safe conditions for workers.

The Humane Slaughter Act was revamped in 1978 when the inspector’s role changed to watch slaughter lines “more heavily for an inhumane kill,” Dennis Ilyes said. Senior Director of Investigations of ...