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 ...

Up to 1,000 rabbits per year could be slaughtered on-farm without an Oregon meat processing license under a bill that would expand an existing poultry exemption. House Bill 2689 would allow the rabbit ...

Aug. 10—Big Puff's days as a show rabbit, Chase Myatt and his younger brother Tyler agree, are over. In a small shed on the Myatts' property in Baker County, surrounded by 35 other rabbits, Big Puff ...

"Death and life are so connected. People forget that. A farmer sees that connection up close with a live animal in the morning and a cooling carcass at the end of the day," Arkansas Times Publisher ...

A controversial poultry slaughterhouse in Alexandria has gotten hit with a warning from zoning officials, accused of adding rabbits to the menu when it's only approved to sell chicken and other birds.

The work starts when I put my whites on. The long coat and apron are required by the federal health inspector, who shows up daily. I’m surrounded by the rasp of knives being sharpened and slid into ...

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 ...

For a long time, Mercy Munene wanted to keep rabbits as pets because they are furry and friendly but decided to keep them for business after doing her research. Meeting her at her home in Utawala, ...

In grocery stores across the state, it's generally easier to find locally grown beef than pork or goat. But there's an effort to improve local production for these other types of meat.