Five dozen live chickens tumbled to freedom this week after a truck driver transporting them to a slaughterhouse upstate turned too hard, knocking their cages onto a street in Williamsburg, of all ...

GRASS VALLEY, Cali. (CNN) — On to a new and better life! A thousand chickens landed in northern California on Saturday night after being saved from an Iowa slaughter by an animal rescue. You could ...

Keeping chickens in residential areas of Fayette County is now legal. The Board of Commissioners voted 5-0 on July 28 to allow up to six chickens to be housed on a minimum one-acre lot, as well as ...

This spring, in Berkeley, a coup almost broke out in a city chicken coop. It turns out that when urban farming involves slaughtering – not just raising – animals, things get complicated. The battle ...

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 ...

Every hour, some 1,000,000 chickens, 14,000 pigs, and 4,000 cows are slaughtered for human consumption in the United States. It is a process that takes place far from public view, and one that few ...