The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled in January that the state of California cannot prohibit the slaughter of pigs that become

The Department of Agriculture has grown from a collector and distributor of farming information during the 1860s to, today, a

Formal title: Docket Number [EPA-HQ-OW-2011-0188] National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation…

Peer-reviewed summary of the scientific literature related to the welfare implications of hot iron branding and its alternatives.

The AVMA, as a medical authority for the health and welfare of animals, offers the following eight integrated principles for developing and evaluating…

Veterinarians protect America's – and the world's – food supply from the farm to the dinner table.

As consumers demand to know more about the origin of their foods, the trend toward less-restrictive housing for farm animals has accelerated in recent…