Canadian farmers are renegotiating livestock contracts with U.S. buyers and finding local markets for crops they previously ...

They were destined for slaughter. For months, they lay in desolation on beds of straw, captives inside the pen of a slaughterhouse. Lucky for them the pig farm was going out of business.

A litter of piglets has been saved from slaughter after their mother escaped from a farm and gave birth in woodland. Matilda and her piglets, dubbed the "Ollerton 11", were discovered by a dog ...