“The point is that I want people to connect with the animals, to connect with death.” Shupack’s interest in kosher slaughter was sparked by the 2008 federal raid on Agriprocessors, then the ...

In a legal test case pitting animal rights advocates and far-right politicians against Muslim and Jewish religious leaders seeking to protect halal and kosher meats, a magistrate for Europe's highest ...

AMSTERDAM (JTA) – Despite opposition by the Dutch constitutional court, the local animal rights party has filed its second bill seeking to ban a kosher slaughter method it considers cruel.

#Anti-Semitism," a spokesman tweeted. Halal and kosher methods of slaughtering animals for food require that they be conscious when their throats are cut. Critics say slaughtering animals without ...

That step doesn’t align with the rules of kosher slaughter — called “shechita” in Hebrew — in which highly trained “shochets” (ritual slaughterers) dispatch animals with a single ...

Meeting many of these indicators created an additional delay of three minutes, limiting kosher slaughterhouses to processing around 20 animals per hour. The Jewish groups had argued that kosher ...

Jewish students have raised concerns because kosher meat should ... the use of stunning, where animals are made immobile or unconscious, immediately before slaughter. There is debate about ...