A butcher has died after a pig being stunned in a slaughterhouse recovered and lashed out, causing the man to sustain a fatal wound from a 15-inch meat cleaver. The Mirror reports that the butcher ...

Calls for a ban on halal slaughter have become prominent in recent years in the UK. Nigel Farage has opposed such a move on the grounds that it would be needlessly divisive and exacerbate community ...

Among the legislation announced alongside the King’s Speech on Tuesday was a ban on the export of UK livestock for fattening and slaughter. The decision, if it gets through Parliament, will have a ...

Changes to sampling requirements at low-throughput slaughterhouses are unlikely to result in a significant shift in the number of Campylobacter cases in the UK, according to a report. Researchers did ...

It’s not exactly revelatory to say that slaughterhouses cause pain; they’re killing factories, after all. But the scope of this pain, and the number of animals and people it impacts, isn’t immediately ...