A court in the Polish city of Bialystok has asked the Polish Constitutional Tribunal to rule on whether the country’s ban on ritual slaughter is compliant with the constitutional freedom of religion.

Estonia will change its law on religious slaughter, government officials have said. The change is necessary because religious slaughter “does not take new scientific knowledge into account,” the head ...

(JNS) Two kosher certifying agencies and two meat processors have a big beef with the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, which suddenly changed the rules and made kosher slaughter a longer and more ...

A slaughterhouse that supplies kosher meat to London-area stores has stopped kosher slaughter following a protest by McDonald’s. Slaney Foods in County Wexford, Ireland, decided to stop religious ...

Ritual slaughter of animals under halal and kosher rules is a barbaric medieval abhorrence which should have no place in modern society. Refusing to support proposals to eradicate this abomination ...

AMSTERDAM — For 60 years, the Sal Meyer deli in Amsterdam has been serving kosher foods like its signature pekelvlees, a fatty corned beef steeped in meat juices and served with a bun. The deli is one ...

Many a bimah (pulpit) of New York synagogs vibrated with Rabbinical wrath last Friday evening. The Kashruth Association, guild of ritual food inspectors, met during the week in anger. Some 6,500 ...

MPs debated banning the practice of halal and kosher slaughter in Parliament after more than 109,000 Brits signed a petition demanding improved animal welfare. While there was no vote, Monday’s ...

CWN Editor's Note: The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ruled that a ban on kosher and halal slaughter of animals in most of Belgium legitimately interferes with the right to religious ...

You’d be hard pressed to find anyone who will defend animal suffering as a value in itself. But few of us are animal rights absolutists—that is, who believe animals have the right not to be killed for ...

In the 1930s, the Great Depression gave rise to historic changes that drastically affected the way Americans ate. Andrew Coe and his wife, Jane Ziegelman , have done extensive research into the ...