A group of animal-rights activists want the city to stop the slaughter of 50,000 chickens on the streets of Brooklyn in the days leading up to Yom Kippur. “This is a huge public health threat, a toxic ...

On Monday night more than a thousand people gathered on President Street at Kingston Avenue in Crown Heights for kapparot, a ritual Hasidic Jewish chicken slaughter ahead of Yom Kippur. Early the ...

Most Hasidic Jews I've spoken to in Brooklyn about kapparot, the annual pre-Yom Kippur chicken slaughter ritual, say the same thing about what happens to the meat: it goes to charity. Given the ...

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. Margret Wanjiru at one of the chicken slaughtering exercises at Muruguru village in the ...

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A judge Friday denied a request from an animal rights group for a temporary restraining order to stop two Jewish centers in Orange County from practicing a holiday ritual in which chickens are ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. PORTSMOUTH — People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals targeted downtown Portsmouth eateries Thursday with a protest against ...

The key to understanding the complexities in the debate over the line speed issue for poultry production is to recognize that there is a distinct difference between the line speed for slaughter and ...

In a request that officials called “unusual,” Alexandria City Council on Tuesday approved a special-use permit to open a chicken slaughter operation in the Northern Virginia city. The vote was 5-2.