Brexit means Brexit, except I think we all now know that it doesn’t, apart from when it does. One area where Brexit actually does mean Brexit is in the laws that govern food production and that ...

MP Esther McVey, who brought the bill on Tuesday, said it is about animal welfare, transparency in meat production and ...

The European Court of Justice’s verdict on the legality of the bans on Shechita in the Wallonia and Flanders regions of Belgium was always going to be a landmark ruling. Unfortunately, it did not go ...

Shimon Cohen, the Campaign Director of Shechita UK, spoke Thursday to the European Commission on Jewish religious freedoms in the European Union in a closed conference entitled, "Freedom to practice ...

Despite the EU Parliament's vote Wednesday to legalize “shechita,” the Jewish method of humane animal slaughter is still very much in danger. It was reported on Thursday that the European Jewish ...

Over the past six months, media coverage referencing shechita, the Jewish religious and humane method of animal slaughter for food, has taken on a troubling and increasingly polarized tone across ...

The Government said in response to Mr Fulgoni's petition that it "prefers all animals to be stunned before slaughter". But it ...

Three major Canadian Jewish groups say new rules have made kosher meat production in the country “nearly impossible” to sustain in the long term. The Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs, an umbrella ...

The legislation coincides with alleged plans to limit circumcision in Britain and Belgium.The post Bill for labeling kosher, halal meat advances in UK appeared first on JNS.org.

There is a possibility of the prohibition of Shechita in Norway which went into effect in the New Year, being lifted, Aaron Gruzd, a leading Jewish communal worker in Norway, President of the ...

A bill is being drafted by the Government, the Yiddish daily “Najer Haint” says, to restrict the number of animals slaughtered in Poland according to Jewish ritual to the actual numbers of the Jewish ...

Jewish Shechita method of slaughter can be more human than stunning animals, claims Henry Grunwald OBE QC, Chairman of Shechita UK. 01 April 2011 • 7:00am The Jewish Community is fully supportive of ...