Life may be stranger than fiction, but sometimes fiction bleeds into life. Take James Cromwell. In 1995’s Babe, the actor played a farmer who decides not to slaughter a nice little pig who was ...

Animal rights advocates say the new regulatory regime requires private slaughterhouse employees to make decisions about which pigs should be slaughtered, both before and in place of federal USDA ...

* Egypt begins slaughtering pig herds despite U.N. criticism * Egypt will offer meat of killed pigs for human consumption * Army to be enlisted to help with mass slaughter (Adds villagers hiding pigs, ...

(CNN) — A butcher died while trying to slaughter a pig in Hong Kong on Friday, the city’s police said. The 61-year-old butcher, who worked in the Sheung Shui Slaughterhouse on the city’s northern ...

The man was working as a butcher in a Hong Kong slaughterhouse when he was killed after a pig, not the one pictured, attacked him. Jo-Anne McArthur via Unsplash A 61-year-old man is dead after being ...

A butcher has died after a pig being stunned in a slaughterhouse recovered and lashed out, causing the man to sustain a fatal wound from a 15-inch meat cleaver. The Mirror reports that the butcher ...

Danish Crown is to shut an abattoir in Denmark due to a declining supply of pigs for slaughter. Based in Sæby in the Nordjylland region of Denmark, the slaughterhouse’s 800 employees will lose their ...