New York City police are investigating a rabbi’s complaint that he received a thousand threatening e-mails over the slaughter of chickens before a Jewish holy day.

One menu item could soon disappear from foreign dinner tables: meat from slaughtered American horses.

The Supreme Court has declined an appeal from the owners of a horse slaughtering plant who challenged an Illinois law prohibiting the killing of horses for human consumption.Cavel International Inc. closed its plant in DeKalb, Ill., last year after a...

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 slaughter than throat slitting.The Norfolk-based People for the...

Lawmakers called Thursday for an investigation into the safety of meat used in the National School Lunch Program, citing concerns raised by alleged abuses at a slaughterhouse in Chino, Calif.Reps. George Miller, D-Calif., Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., and...

The nation’s last horse slaughtering plant could be forced to permanently close after a federal appeals court Friday upheld an Illinois law prohibiting the slaughter of horses for human consumption.A three-judge panel of the U.S. Seventh Circuit Court...