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 ...

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 ...

A bill that would have banned kosher slaughter in Belgium was voted down by the Brussels Regional Parliament on June 17 by a majority of 42 to 38. Had it passed, the ban would have “placed a ...

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 ...

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 ...

New Zealand has banned shechita, the kosher slaughter of animals. The country’s new animal welfare code, which took effect last Friday, mandates that all animals for commercial consumption be stunned ...

Jewish groups are welcoming the British government’s decision to reject a recommendation to ban kosher slaughter as a victory for their unified campaign. The threat to ritual slaughter, known as ...