Perdue’s entire business model is predicated on raising and slaughtering chickens, but that doesn’t mean the company is completely callous to the well-being of those birds. In Perdue’s first annual ...

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 ...

McDonald’s is taking a step toward improving animal welfare by requiring suppliers to follow new standards for raising and slaughtering chickens served in the chain's restaurants. The guidelines, ...

New York—A coalition of animal welfare, consumer safety, and worker rights organizations announced today that more than 82,000 concerned members of the public, workers and allies have raised their ...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)-- At a time when more and more consumers are looking to buy locally grown foods, you may be shocked to find out the road that your chicken will travel to reach your dinner table.

Keeping chickens in residential areas of Fayette County is now legal. The Board of Commissioners voted 5-0 on July 28 to allow up to six chickens to be housed on a minimum one-acre lot, as well as ...

Demonstrators cried fowl at the city Health Department’s headquarters Tuesday in a dramatic protest of an Orthodox Jewish ritual that involves slaughtering chickens in the street. Some 30 protesters ...