The food and livestock supply chains face challenges as the impacts of climate change continues to manifest and intensify. Rising temperatures, increasingly variable precipitation, and heightened risks of extreme weather events are prompting farmers,…
Gases such as carbon dioxide, nitrogen, or argon can be used to kill or stun animals prior to slaughter in a practice known as Controlled Atmospheric Stunning (CAS). This method can be…
In the United States, ‘humane slaughter’ for mammalian food animals including cattle, sheep, and goats is defined by the Humane Methods of Slaughter Act (HMSA), a federal law passed in 1958 in response to…
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