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 ...

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 ...

The Animal Welfare Institute, Compassion in World Farming, the Humane Society of the United States, Humane Society Legislative Fund, Humane Society Veterinary Medical Association, and World Animal ...

The actor helped rescue a piglet who fell off of a truck on the way to get slaughtered and named it after the very movie that inspired him to go vegan Alexis Jones is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She ...

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 ...

Last week he was on his way to slaughter. This week, Wally the pig has been feasting on apples and Milk-Bone dog biscuits. “This is a game we play,” said Andy Oestreich, the senior humane officer at ...

* 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, ...

"Succession" actor James Cromwell rescued a pig that fell off a truck on its way to a slaughterhouse. Cromwell named the pig Babe after the 1995 movie of the same name, where he played Farmer Hoggett.