WASHINGTON (AP) — Two animal welfare groups and dozens of lawmakers are urging the Obama administration to improve humane treatment of poultry at slaughterhouses, citing statistics that show hundreds ...

PETA has plans to bring its “Hell on Wheels” truck to Hamilton as it protests the slaughtering of chickens. The truck is covered with images of chickens crammed into crates. It will play recorded ...

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. Margret Wanjiru at one of the chicken slaughtering exercises at Muruguru village in the ...

PORTSMOUTH — People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals targeted downtown Portsmouth eateries Thursday with a protest against chicken slaughter and consumption. A “Hell on Wheels” vehicle from PETA, ...

NEW HAVEN — A controversial poultry market that would have slaughtered live chickens as they were purchased won't be opening anytime soon in the former location of a neighborhood market and sub shop ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A California woman on trial for taking four chickens from one of Perdue Farms’ major poultry plants has put animal treatment at slaughter houses in the national spotlight as her ...

Vaccines could be a way to suppress bird flu in the U.S. and avoid the slaughter of millions of chickens amid the rising price of eggs. Among the concerns delaying the effort are whether it could ...

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska agriculture officials say another 1.8 million chickens must be killed after bird flu was found on a farm in the latest sign that the outbreak that has already prompted the ...

Chickens gather around a feeder at a farm on August 9, 2014, in Osage, Iowa. A new proposed U.S. Department of Agriculture rule would ban chicken companies from deducting farmers’ pay (Scott ...