Many worry that a new proposal to ban ritual slaughter in the Belgian region of Flanders is yet another attempt to mask anti-Semitism and Islamophobia with a disingenuous argument for animal welfare — ...

Since the publication of the first edition of my book, Big Food, Big Pharma, Big Lies, ritual slaughter of animals — kosher, sanctioned by Jewish law and halal, sanctioned by Islamic law — has ...

A widely supported bill in the Belgian region will ban versions of traditional Jewish and Muslim ritual slaughter. These attacks on Halal and Kosher meat are unfortunately not isolated and are ...

The ruling party declined to finalize legislation on the issue already passed in parliament, illustrating the tension between its desire to to ban ritual slaughter and the interests of Polish farmers.

Another country has banned the cruel practice of ritual slaughter––kosher slaughter, sanctioned by Jewish law and halal slaughter, sanctioned by Islamic law. In both practices, cattle, sheep, goats ...

Over the past six months, media coverage referencing shechita, the Jewish religious and humane method of animal slaughter for food, has taken on a troubling and increasingly polarized tone across ...

(JTA) – The European Union’s highest court has upheld Belgium’s bans on slaughtering animals without first stunning them, a ruling that confirms the prohibition on the production of kosher and halal ...

French far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen has declared that the rise in Campylobacter and E.coli cases in Europe was “directly related” to an alleged increase in ritual slaughterings, ...

POLES are sensitive to the charge they are anti-Semitic. That’s the implication many derived from the reaction in Jewish circles to the Polish parliament’s decision to reject the government’s attempt ...

The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has confirmed that ritual slaughter without stunning may take place only in the EU within a slaughterhouse licensed and approved by regulatory authorities. This ...