Four petitions for policy changes — one from 2016 — have received final rulings from USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS).
The oldest petition was from the Animal Welfare Institute
If you can always ask, you can always ask again. And asking again is the tactic the Animal Welfare Institute is taking with USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service
Mass killings to control highly contagious, highly pathogenic avian influenza are being criticized by at least one animal activist organization.
The non-governmental Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) has petitioned the USDA’
A multi-million dollar Washington D.C.-based nonprofit, the Animal Welfare Institute, has filed the second petition this year seeking a policy change with USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection
There are just 10 more days to comment before USDA can finalize the Organic Livestock and Poultry rule for the National Organic Program. If enacted, new animal welfare standards would
A federal judge in Rochester, NY, has ruled he can review the denial of a rulemaking petition that suggests USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service should prohibit behavior that
Four and a half years after the Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) petitioned USDA over the use of labeling claims like “humane” and “sustainable,” the issues involved may be taken up
People are often shocked to learn how little government oversight exists surrounding the way animals are slaughtered in the United States.
There are only about 148 (full-time equivalent) humane slaughter
