WASHINGTON — Nearly 1 million chickens and turkeys are unintentionally boiled alive each year in U.S. slaughterhouses, often because fast-moving lines fail to kill the birds before they are ...

Work at a chicken processing plant involves a great deal of repetitive motion in cold temperatures, making workers highly vulnerable to carpal tunnel syndrome and gnarled fingers. And because there ...

Filed in Baltimore — near Perdue’s headquarters of Salisbury, Maryland — the Aug. 30 complaint describes a series of secret meetings a Florida resort beginning in 2009 where top executives of the ...

Now the USDA is finalizing a proposal that would allow poultry companies to accelerate their processing lines, with the aim of removing pathogens from the food supply and making plants more ...

To keep up with demand for chicken, the largest processing plants in the U.S. want to increase their line speed by 25 percent. To do that, they would need the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s ...

Vitale says the State Agriculture & Markets permit would allow the processing of 20,000 fowl per year (birds such as chickens, guinea hens, and pigeons, or rabbits).

WASHINGTON — Nearly 1 million chickens and turkeys are unintentionally boiled alive each year in U.S. slaughterhouses, often because fast-moving lines fail to kill the birds before they are … ...