ATLANTA (AP) – Georgia is the nation’s biggest producer of broiler chickens, but small farmers for years have been pushed to the margins of this lucrative industry because they don’t have access to ...

The growing demand for locally raised, pasture-fed meat is confronted by a lack of high-quality, humane, and regional processing plants. Even the USDA has gotten involved in identifying where outreach ...

BILLINGS — For Kris and Bill Martinell, getting their cattle from pasture to plate is quite an undertaking — one that involves shipping the animals 2 1/2 hours from the family ranch in southwest ...

WINNIPEG, Manitoba (Reuters) - Slaughtering cattle is a solitary, but personal business for Gerrit vande Bruinhorst, 55, the mobile butcher of Picture Butte, Alberta. On this day, vande Bruinhorst, a ...

It was originally a 24-foot box truck. Some modifications were made. It now has a 300-gallon water tank. It has stainless steel sinks; a power inverter. It has saws. A tool to stun. The back of it is ...