A group of animal-rights activists want the city to stop the slaughter of 50,000 chickens on the streets of Brooklyn in the days leading up to Yom Kippur. “This is a huge public health threat, a toxic ...

Perdue Farms, known for its namesake chicken brand, is rolling out gentler slaughter practices as part of its efforts to reduce trauma and discomfort for birds. The company will increase its use of ...

PORTSMOUTH — People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals targeted downtown Portsmouth eateries Thursday with a protest against chicken slaughter and consumption. A “Hell on Wheels” vehicle from PETA, ...

Editor’s note: This opinion column offers a differing view from that presented by guest columnist Brian Ronholm in “Eschewing obfuscation on poultry slaughter line speed.” Poultry slaughter would ...

A judge Friday denied a request from an animal rights group for a temporary restraining order to stop two Jewish centers in Orange County from practicing a holiday ritual in which chickens are ...

It's that time of year again: the High Holy Days, 10 days from Rosh Hashanah to Yom Kippur, mark the beginning of the Jewish New Year and for Jews are a time of reflection, repentance, and celebration ...

The stench of death, of hot entrails, feces, and blood, pulled at the nostrils of the hundreds crowded along on a closed-off half-block of President Street in Crown Heights on Monday evening. The ...

MANHATTAN (CN) — Brooklyn residents and animal rights activists cannot force New York City to block the annual Orthodox Jewish ritual slaughter of chickens known as Kaporos, a New York appellate court ...

In America, we like to believe that bigger and faster are usually better. After all, what’s better for business than reaping bigger and faster profits? But sometimes we pay a terrible price for this ...

An animal-rights group is suing California, charging that the state fails to enforce humane slaughter laws in poultry plants. The PETA Foundation says the California Department of Food and Agriculture ...

In the crowded "wet markets" of Hong Kong where squawking poultry are bought and sold, the slaughter was about to begin. Before Dec. 29, 1997, was over, 770,000 chickens would be gassed or have their ...

FILE - In this Sept. 11, 2013 file photo, an ultra-Orthodox Jewish man holds two chickens, later to be slaughtered as part of the Kapparot ritual in the ultra-Orthodox city of Bnei Brak near Tel Aviv, ...