A Springfield slaughterhouse that prides itself on transparency is contesting three alleged violations of Vermont livestock handling laws following a case of improperly stunning a sheep last January.

The settlement, announced by the Humane Society, is the largest-ever penalty for an animal abuse case. Four years ago, undercover video showed "downer" cows at a Chino slaughterhouse being mistreated.

This is a story about an often controversial, emotional part of our food system that can be hard to talk about: how livestock is processed into a meat. For years Massachusetts has only had two ...

An undercover Humane Society investigation into the country’s second-largest chicken producer uncovered a pattern of cruelty to animals within some of the food provider’s slaughterhouses and farms. An ...