California's Proposition 12 and federal efforts to counter it have sparked strong emotions on both sides of the issue.

PETA wrote a letter to the USDA on July 23 to investigate Bhagavan ‘Doc’ Antle over circumventing handling licenses and ...

Challenges to California’s animal welfare standards could have implications for states’ ability to restrict synthetic dyes ...

The findings are a boon for Republicans who want to use the farm bill to block states from creating their own agriculture standards.

The 2-year-old petition from Animal Partisan to the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS), calling upon the agency ...

On animal welfare, Tom Vilsack is falling woefully short ... The USDA has oversight concerning other animal welfare issues via the Humane Methods of Slaughter Act and the Horse Protection Act, ...

Kathy Guillermo, PETA's Senior Vice President, criticized OHSU's handling of the situation. "The horrific death of this ...

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals is preparing to sue the US Department of Agriculture and the Animal Health Inspection Service to obtain records of Animal Welfare Act enforcement ...

The US Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service sent a letter last month to organizations regulated under the Animal Welfare Act announcing a pilot program that will ...

In November, the US Department of Agriculture published a final rule establishing animal welfare standards for the millions of animals raised on organic farms. The Organic Livestock and Poultry ...

Marisa Erasmus, associate professor of animal sciences, received a four-year, $793,000 grant to devise methods for improving laying-hen welfare against a parasite called the northern fowl mite.

A report released by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, accused Linvilla Orchards, a 300-acre family farm located in Media, Pennsylvania, of committing several violations of the Animal Welfare Act.