British lawmakers spent three hours debating a possible ban on religious slaughter. The debate on Tuesday came after an on-line petition from the British Veterinary Association calling for a ban on ...

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People for the Equal Treatment of Animals, the radical vegetarian group that in an advertising campaign once compared the slaughtering of chickens to the murder of Holocaust victims, is taking aim at ...

It’s unnerving to read a government document describing how to properly cut a cow’s throat. But in order to understand the lawsuit between the producers of kosher meat, kosher certification agencies, ...

GIBBON - Bruce Kline was born in Pennsylvania and once was a fabric dyer and sold and serviced hydraulics. Now Kline calls Israel home, when he's not traveling the world for his job as a "shochet," a ...

Canadian Jewish organizations have triumphed in their effort to maintain the legality of the country’s kosher-certified meat preparation. On Wednesday, Canada’s Federal Court issued an interlocutory ...

Area butchers are sharpening their knives and slicing, dicing and mincing their way through thousands and thousands of pounds ...

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 ...

In April I took a wonderful trip to Japan for two weeks. It was a fiber arts tour, and nearly all of the group were weavers like me. It was wonderful to spend time with Japanese artisans, learning and ...