The president of Denmark’s Jewish community disputed a government minister’s claims that new regulations would outlaw all kosher slaughter in the country. “We find this an odd statement,” Finn Schwarz ...

The president-elect of the British Veterinary Association called for a ban on slaughtering cattle without first stunning it, which in effect would outlaw traditional kosher slaughter. In an interview ...

(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 ...

Orthodox Jewish rabbis clean slaughtered chickens at the Jerusalem Chicken Factory in 2006 in Jerusalem. (Photo by Paula Bronstein/Getty Images via JTA.org) The top rights court in Europe has ruled ...

Even if you eat kosher meat, you probably haven’t seen a kosher animal slaughter first-hand. The Jewish Initiative for Animals organizes public demonstrations of the process to get eaters thinking ...

PARIS (Reuters)- France's prime minister urged Muslims and Jews to consider scrapping their halal and kosher slaughter laws on Monday as President Nicolas Sarkozy and his allies stepped up their ...

The ruling dashed the hopes of Jewish advocates who had been lobbying against the bans. (JTA) — The top rights court in Europe has ruled that bans of ritual slaughter in parts of Belgium can stand, ...