The company that operated the country's only equine slaughter plant has been convicted and fined on charges related to the fraudulent identification of horses destined for human consumption.

Armenian community in Georgia requested Georgian Parliament to recognize slaughter as genocide. Meanwhile, the issue caused disputes in Georgian Parliament today after MP Hamlet Movsesian, ...

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Regional bans in Belgium on the ritual slaughter of animals without prior stunning don't breach the European Convention on Human Rights, a top court in Strasbourg ruled on Tuesday. The decision ...

MPs have clashed over a public petition calling for a ban on the non-stun slaughter of animals, reigniting longstanding discussions around animal welfare and religious freedom. The Westminster Hall ...

Thousands of healthy American horses are being “butchered in a secretive, inhumane trade”, welfare campaigners say, as it emerges that almost 18,000 were sent from the US to Mexico for slaughter last ...

MPs will hold a major debate today on banning halal and kosher slaughter of animals, after thousands of Britons signed a petition demanding better animal welfare. The debate will be held in ...