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Judge rules poultry are not ‘livestock’

By Alicia Karapetian on 3/5/2008 for Meatingplace.com
A San Francisco judge has ruled that chickens are not “livestock,” and, as a result, are not subject to the Humane Methods of Slaughter Act, according to court filings.
A lawsuit brought by the Humane Society of the United States against the Agriculture Department argued that USDA has misinterpreted the [...]