SALEM — A bill meant to reduce barriers for small-scale rabbit meat production has also sparked a proposal to expand Oregon’s humane slaughter law. On-farm slaughter of 1,000 rabbits a year would be ...

Daniela Larese is a farmer in Ashford. With her partner Nick Weinstock, their 41-acre BOTL Farm raises and sells pasture-raised pork, lamb, chicken and goat meat, as well as eggs, raw honey, ...

Factory farming represents the worst of humanity’s treatment of animals. Yet the Connecticut Department of Agriculture (DoAG) is desperately trying to introduce a new form of factory farming to our ...

A pair of bills in Connecticut could make it easier for small farmers there to raise and slaughter rabbits and sell their meat. One, a standalone bill, would allow farmers to slaughter, process, and ...

Chase Myatt with one of the rabbits he and his brother, Tyler, are raising for meat. Up to 1,000 rabbits per year could be slaughtered on-farm without an Oregon meat processing license under a bill ...

Should rabbits in Connecticut be raised only as house pets, or possibly also for stews and other meals? A proposal to allow harvesting rabbits for food, an idea loved by farmers but hated by animal ...

Arkansas Times publisher Alan Leveritt has lived on his great-grandparents’ farm in North Pulaski County for more than 40 years. This is the latest in a series of columns about day-to-day life on the ...