Eid al Adha, also known as the Festival of Sacrifice, holds huge significance as a major Islamic festival celebrated worldwide. It is marked by Eid prayers, feasting, and Qurbani. Qurbani, also called ...

Lawmakers are urging President Trump to permanently ban the export of American horses for slaughter following the ...

Washington, DC—The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) has submitted a petition to the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) requesting that the agency write regulations designed to decrease the ...

The federal Humane Methods of Slaughter Act was signed into law by President Dwight D. Eisenhower on August 27, 1958. It was expanded in 1978 and 2002. The federal Humane Methods of Slaughter Act (P.L ...

KATY -- Sam Kouka will perform the ritual hundreds of times during next week's three-day celebration of Eid Ul-Adha, Arabic for the Feast of Sacrifice. As he faces Mecca, gripping the head of a ...

For eight years natives of Zululand, Union of South Africa, have been killing off wild animals to protect themselves from sleeping sickness. The slaughter has threatened some African animals with ...

A recent petition close to Bakrid sought restrictions on cow slaughter, which led to the court imposing what the government ...

A runaway cow that roamed the streets of Brooklyn this week will get a second chance at life, after a slaughterhouse agreed to let the calf live out her days at an animal sanctuary in nearby New ...