Reindeer, buffalo and a Marin farm animal protection group sued President Bush and U.S. Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns for allegedly allowing inhumane slaughter. The lawsuit, filed Friday in ...

A more than two-year transitional period to help slaughterhouses in Belgium adjust to new rules on halal and kosher slaughter has been agreed. Belgium’s devolved Wallonia region, the country’s largest ...

Introduction of post slaughter irradiation, industrial cooking or carcass freezing by processors would all slash levels of campylobacter in poultry, said the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA).

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. BRENDAN TREMBATH: There's more evidence that inhumane cattle slaughter techniques, revealed in last ...

Low atmospheric pressure stunning (LAPS) is a slaughter technique which may be less stressful for pigs (Sus scrofa domestica) than current commercial stunning and slaughter methods. The main methods ...