At Green Mountain Girls Farm in Northfield, for example, the law s stipulation that only an itinerant slaughterer or the animal s buyer can perform the slaughter on site means that farm co-owner Laura ...

Cattle graze in a field at Otter Creek Farm on Thursday, Oct. 3, in Johnsonville. The farms sells a small number of life cattle and pigs annually to consumers who then have their animals slaughtered ...

Quenneville later requested an opinion from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and it also said on-farm slaughtering of a customer’s animals is not allowed. Staying in good favor with federal ...

ATLANTA (AP) – Georgia is the nation’s biggest producer of broiler chickens, but small farmers for years have been pushed to the margins of this lucrative industry because they don’t have access to ...

Slaughter contends that the best way to control these "superbugs" -- which not only poison food but also result in up to 100,000 deadly hospital infections a year -- is to pass her legislation ...

On-farm slaughter has long been a contentious issue in Vermont. Vocal consumers, farmers and their advocates have campaigned hard for the right to raise an animal, then slaughter it and buy and sell ...

Margret Wanjiru at one of the chicken slaughtering exercises at Muruguru village in the outskirts of Nyeri Town constituency, 2022. [Mose Sammy, Standard] For poultry farmers, things can go wrong ...