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 ...

Czech director Adam Martinec's debut is a funny, melancholic rural domestic dramedy that isn't afraid to reveal how the sausage gets made. Though it mines a very specifically Czech strain of absurdity ...

CAIRO — The Egyptian government is using swine flu as an excuse to get rid of tens of thousands of pigs raised by garbage collectors who live amid the refuse in Cairo slums. But the move has prompted ...

Ah, the power of motherhood. A pregnant pig was able to leap off a truck, escape death and safely give birth to her litter. The pig, later named Rita, was being transported to a California slaughter ...

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 ...

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 ...