Washington, DC—Today, a coalition of animal protection groups submitted a rulemaking petition to the US Department of Agriculture to require pig slaughter plants to ...

Angry bright red welts, criss-crossing a pig’s skin. Dark stretches of bruising as large as three human hands. Deep gashes that could only have been delivered with a blunt object, wielded with force.

AWI, along with several other animal advocacy groups, filed a rulemaking petition with USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) under the Humane Methods of Slaughter Act and the Federal Meat ...