The Agriculture Department’s Food Safety and Inspection Service is proposing new rules that would allow faster line speeds at ...
February 18, 2026 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced proposed rules Tuesday that would speed up line speeds at poultry and pork production facilities. Civil Eats is a ...
At present, chicken slaughterhouses standardly operate at speeds of up to 140 birds per minute, with many facilities operating under COVID-era waivers to kill up to 175 birds per minute. Pig slaughter ...
Humane World for Animals and Humane World Action Fund, formerly called Humane Society of the United States and Humane Society ...
Trump’s Department of Agriculture (USDA) has issued proposed rules to gut slaughterhouse line speed regulations at poultry and pork processing facilities. If finalized, the poultry rule would allow ...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is proposing to amend its regulations to allow poultry and pork processing plants to operate at higher line speeds.
The federal case of The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) v. Sonny Perdue was dismissed in late February after hanging around for four years. HSUS and other animal activists, on Feb. 25, 2020 ...
Four years after the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota struck down USDA’s rule eliminating line speed limits in pork and poultry plants, Republican Rep. Brad Finstad has introduced ...