Critics fear that increasing the speed at which animals are slaughtered could lead to less safe food and less safe conditions for workers.

Eid al Adha, also known as the Festival of Sacrifice, holds huge significance as a major Islamic festival celebrated worldwide. It is marked by Eid prayers, feasting, and Qurbani. Qurbani, also called ...

Halal meat from animals slaughtered by religious ritual without having first been stunned cannot be labelled organic, on animal welfare grounds, a top European Union court ruled Tuesday. The way the ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Over 70% of the sheep slaughtered in England and Wales are now killed according to halal ...

Animal rights advocates say the new regulatory regime requires private slaughterhouse employees to make decisions about which pigs should be slaughtered, both before and in place of federal USDA ...

Since 2010, an estimated 1.1 to 1.7 million kangaroos have been killed annually in what is considered the largest slaughter of terrestrial mammals in the world. (See AWI Quarterly, spring 2024.) ...

Countless dirty secrets swirl around the way animals on factory farms live, but an even uglier one may be the way they sometimes die. “If everyone had to work a day in a meatpacking plant, these ...

FORT PIERCE — A married couple avoided prison Wednesday after pleading no contest to felony charges related to what investigators in February described as an “illegal animal slaughter farm” in western ...

Public interest litigation seeks to ban animal slaughter in retail shops, urging compliance with established humane regulations in Chennai.