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AMSTERDAM - One of Europe's first countries to allow Jews to practice their religion openly may soon pass a law banning centuries- old Jewish and Muslim traditions on the ritual slaughter of animals. In the Netherlands, an unlikely alliance of an animal rights party and the xenophobic Freedom Party is spearheading support for the ban on kosher and halal slaughter methods that critics say inflict unacceptable suffering on animals.
Legal Petition for Action Presented to Florida Department of Education MACHIPONGO, Va., March 24, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- On March 9, 2011 petitioners Karen Davis of United Poultry Concerns and Susan Hargreaves of Humane Educators Reaching Out (HERO) filed a Petition for Agency Action with the Florida Department of Education seeking promulgation of new rules for humane treatment of animals and banning animal slaughter in K-12 classrooms pursuant to the statutory mandates of Florida education law.
COLUMBUS -- Next year, Ohio could swing from zero regulation on exotic animal ownership to imposing stringent regulations in the near term and an outright ban beginning in 2014. Terry Thompson's troubling actions on Oct. 18 in Zanesville probably forever changed how the state views private ownership of exotic pets.
...PART 313: HUMANE SLAUGHTER OF LIVESTOCK. 313.5 - Chemical; carbon dioxide. T...
Rep. Louise M. Slaughter remembers the days when people didn't on occasion die from eating chicken or burgers or spinach. And she's pushing legislation that's intended to bring those good old days back again. We have created these serious strains of bacteria we can't control," the Fairport Democrat said.
If anyone should understand how plants and animals evolve through the intervention of human agency, it's the farmers and the scientists of the agribusiness world. Over the centuries, they have selected and combined and weeded and cross-pollinated to create everything from cows that give a lot of milk to corn that stands up tall and straight. What too many of them don't seem to get, however, is that they are also creating another breed of creatures. But this one won't help the farmer's bottom line, or contribute to the consumer's dinner table. It will pose a threat to large numbers of human beings who will never set foot on a farm.
EULESS, Texas (AP) -- A Santeria priest has filed an appeal in federal court after he lost his religious-freedom challenge to a city ban on animal slaughter. The Washington-based Becket Fund for Religious Liberty filed an appeal Tuesday on behalf of Jose Merced to the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans.
...PART 313: HUMANE SLAUGHTER OF LIVESTOCK. 313.16 - Mechanical; gunshot. The s...
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