A poultry slaughterhouse has been fined for failing to stun or slaughter birds before they entered scalding tanks, which are designed to loosen feathers of dead birds before plucking. Halal chicken ...

People are often shocked to learn how little government oversight exists surrounding the way animals are slaughtered in the United States. There are only about 148 (full-time equivalent) humane ...

Meat producer One Stop Halal has apologised after admitting causing unnecessary suffering to 81 chickens at its plant in Eye, Suffolk, last year. The birds entered a scalding tank used to loosen ...

WASHINGTON — Nearly 1 million chickens and turkeys are unintentionally boiled alive each year in U.S. slaughterhouses, often because fast-moving lines fail to kill the birds before they are dropped ...

In the days following an 81-page complaint filed with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission alleging “misleading” descriptions of its animal welfare standards, industrial poultry producer Pilgrim’s Pride ...

TBIJ co-publishes its stories with major media outlets around the world so they reach as many people as possible. Chickens slowly freezing to death, being boiled alive, drowning or suffocating under ...

Highbury Poultry Farm Produce kills an average of 75,000 chickens daily, or 19.5 million a year, at the plant. Birds are first shackled to a moving line, before being stunned, bled and finally scalded ...

Sheepdrove Organic Farm has spent the last few years working with Nigel Cope of C&C Systems and Paul Kelly of Kelly Turkeys to create a new hotbox that aims to replace the more familiar scald tank.