LOS ANGELES - An animal rights group sued the California Department of Food and Agriculture on Monday, seeking to end the electric stunning of chickens before they are slaughtered. People for the ...

DENVER People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals is pressing Chipotle Mexican Grill, a chain that promotes its use of natural and organic ingredients, to switch to suppliers that use a PETA-favored ...

Animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, which holds shares in Tyson Foods Inc., said Tuesday it filed a shareholder resolution asking the top U.S. meat company to phase in a ...

DES MOINES, Iowa (Dow Jones/AP) -- Tyson Foods Inc. said Wednesday it will investigate allegations of inhumane chicken slaughter, but contended that an undercover animal-rights photographer apparently ...

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) -- ConAgra Foods Inc., one of the nation's largest packaged-foods companies, said Monday it is urging its poultry suppliers to consider slaughtering chickens in a way the People for ...

NORFOLK, Va. — Kentucky Fried Chicken franchisees in Canada have reached an agreement with animal rights activists to buy chickens for their restaurants from suppliers who use a more humane method of ...

WASHINGTON -- Chickens and turkeys should be covered by the same law as cows, pigs and other animals when they are slaughtered, the Humane Society of the United States said in a lawsuit filed Monday ...

As we approach the festive season, 12 million broilers will be slaughtered and ready for consumption in the next three months. About 80 per cent of this number will go through informal slaughtering ...

Orthodox Jewish rabbis clean slaughtered chickens at the Jerusalem Chicken Factory in 2006 in Jerusalem. (Photo by Paula Bronstein/Getty Images via JTA.org) The top rights court in Europe has ruled ...