Six men and a related company have been fined for animal welfare offenses in England. In July 2022, the Crown Prosecution Service authorized charges, and at Crewe Magistrates’ Court earlier this month ...

Islamic ritual slaughter has been attacked by animal welfare groups, but Muslim authorities say the method is humane ...

Fitness for transport is a term for an animal’s ability to withstand transportation, including length of trip, weather ...

Kicked, beaten, exposed to extreme temperatures and weather—all too often, animals in slaughter plants are severely mistreated before they are killed. In many cases, such incidents could be prosecuted ...

When my father arrived in the UK in the late 1950s to work in the east London docks, part of the early wave of Bangladeshi men who came after the Second World War, there was no halal meat available, ...

The use of high-concentration CO2 gas to stun pigs before slaughter should be phased out within five years, according to a ...

If you attended the Princeton Animal Welfare Society's (PAWS) screening of the film "Earthlings" last week, you are now aware that 28 billion animals are tortured, exploited, abused and eventually ...

Scientists and philosophers call it the “meat paradox”—a type of cognitive dissonance that can occur among people who want to eat meat but not kill animals. The unfortunate reality, however, is that ...

In the Philippines, stray and stolen dogs could end up in illegal slaughterhouses, despite a national ban on the dog meat trade. Reports indicate that some restaurants secretly offer dog meat dishes ...

An EU proposal aimed at improving animal transport conditions has hit a wall two years after its introduction, with ...

While animal welfare has traditionally enjoyed stronger support in urban and suburban areas than rural ones, more Republicans ...

Among the legislation announced alongside the King’s Speech on Tuesday was a ban on the export of UK livestock for fattening and slaughter. The decision, if it gets through Parliament, will have a ...