Jan. 8 (UPI) --An animal rescue group in Florida said a small pig rescued after apparently escaping from a slaughterhouse will receive a new home instead of ending up as an entree. Wilbur, a ...

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 ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Farm Sanctuary brought a federal complaint that says the slaughter rule issued by the U.S. Department of Agriculture will allow nearly all of the pigs slaughtered nationwide to be ...

Remember all those sarcastic promises you made? “Yeah, I’ll do [something] when pigs can fly.” Uh oh. With apologies to PETA, behold: Flying ham/ pork tenderloin/ bacon/ mmm. This little piggy went ...

Just south of downtown L.A., the city of Vernon is not much more than an unremarkable stretch of warehouses and factories. But recently, one of these anonymous buildings has become a hotspot of ...

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 pig appears to have got the ultimate revenge at a Hong Kong slaughterhouse — knocking over and killing a butcher with the cleaver about to be used on him. Police told CNN that the pig had been shot ...

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 ...

* 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, ...