Czech writer-director Adam Martinec has taken on a near-sacred Bohemian ritual in his Karlovy Vary Film Festival Official Competition world premiere “Our Lovely Pig Slaughter.” The annual rendering of ...

Vegetarians might want to give Adam Martinec’s funny, poignant “Our Lovely Pig Slaughter” a wide berth. Meat-eaters, however, should have fewer qualms. Indeed, there’s a case to be made that the ...

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 ...

A Virginia slaughterhouse executive denied the claims of activists that the company is violating federal laws regarding humane treatment of livestock. Jim Monroe, vice president of corporate affairs ...

* 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, ...

The Animal Welfare Institute, Compassion in World Farming, the Humane Society of the United States, Humane Society Legislative Fund, Humane Society Veterinary Medical Association, and World Animal ...

"Succession" actor James Cromwell rescued a pig that fell off a truck on its way to a slaughterhouse. Cromwell named the pig Babe after the 1995 movie of the same name, where he played Farmer Hoggett.

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 ...