Vegan extremists have bullied a mom-and-pop butcher shop in California’s most liberal city into hanging an animal rights sign in the window that the shop owners say amounts to “ethical extortion.” The ...

An animal rights group has agreed to halt its weekly protests at a Berkeley butcher shop in exchange for the shop's display of a sign decrying animal slaughter. The Local Butcher Shop, a purveyor of ...

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The federally ordered two-day suspension came after a USDA inspector saw Tooele Valley Meat's owner cut the hoof off a conscious, injured steer that got ensnared in a gate as it tried to escape ...

This weekend, a small butcher shop in Berkeley posted a confusing sign to customers condemning animal slaughter as “violent and unjust,” a concession made to local animal rights activist group Direct ...

Many Ramona small farm hobbyists are not only raising livestock for sale or as pets, but some are starting to fill their freezers with their own beef and pork. It’s a trend local butcher Daniel ...

“I don’t think I’ll ever not be hands-on,” says Primal Supply owner Heather Marold Thomason. “I think it’s really just my personality.” When Thomason opened her Philadelphia-based whole animal butcher ...

ENGLEWOOD, New Jersey (WPVI) -- A high school senior in New Jersey, who was accepted into 20 colleges, says he has drawn strength from a very important stuffed animal in his life. Chris Butcher says ...