LOS ANGELES - An animal rights group sued the California Department of Food and Agriculture on Monday, seeking to end the electric stunning of chickens before they are slaughtered. People for the ...

Authorities in Shandong province, eastern China, have approved guidelines for the welfare of slaughtered chickens, Qilu Evening News reported on Sunday. Though the guidelines are nonbinding and ...

WASHINGTON -- Chickens and turkeys should be covered by the same law as cows, pigs and other animals when they are slaughtered, the Humane Society of the United States said in a lawsuit filed Monday ...

Animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, which holds shares in Tyson Foods Inc., said Tuesday it filed a shareholder resolution asking the top U.S. meat company to phase in a ...

US fastfood giant McDonald’s may require its processors to use a new method for slaughtering poultry that animal rights groups say is more humane. The company is studying “controlled atmosphere ...

NORFOLK, Va. — Kentucky Fried Chicken franchisees in Canada have reached an agreement with animal rights activists to buy chickens for their restaurants from suppliers who use a more humane method of ...

As we approach the festive season, 12 million broilers will be slaughtered and ready for consumption in the next three months. About 80 per cent of this number will go through informal slaughtering ...

FILE - In this Sept. 28, 2007, file photo, chickens appear at a chicken house near Livingston, Calif. If approved by voters in November, Proposition 12 would set size requirements on the coops and ...

An H5N1 outbreak that recently infected five poultry workers and 1.8 million chickens in northeast Colorado may have been fueled in part by heat wave conditions and slaughtering methods, according to ...