A video of a man hitting a turkey with a baseball bat during a turkey slaughter that was posted on social media caught the attention of animal welfare investigators. The video purportedly shows the ...

The millions of turkeys headed to the slaughterhouse and into the oven this Thanksgiving will receive no additional reprieve from the law. A subheadline on an earlier version of this article ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- An animal rights group that owns stock in Hormel Foods Corp. is trying to pressure the nation's largest turkey processor to adopt a more humane method of slaughtering the birds: ...

Greaney’s Turkey Farm in Mercer has been busy this Thanksgiving week for its annual slaughter of some 2,000 turkeys raised plus another 1,000 birds slaughtered for backyard farmers this season.

Nearly 1,000 workers at House of Raeford Farms slaughter plant in Hoke County will be officially out of jobs today. It’s the end of an era for the town of Raeford. Some of the 950 workers at the ...