Muslim authorities are being urged to accept the stunning of all animals prior to slaughter, as new figures from the Food Standards Agency (FSA) reveal that a quarter of all sheep reared in England ...

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Vets have began slaughtering five pet sheep which had been kept in their owner's house for the past five days. Earlier, Carolyn Hoffe failed in her attempt to stop the slaughter of her sheep as part ...

A farmer has been jailed for six months for operating an illegal halal slaughterhouse in Moray. Julian Jones, 41, admitted that he produced "smokies", specially prepared sheep carcasses for the halal ...

Whitehall officials are discussing a plan for the “mass slaughter” of sheep en route to the EU if a no-deal Brexit leads to delays or closures at ports. If ports are closed in the event of a no-deal ...

King Mohammed VI of Morocco asked Moroccans on Wednesday to abstain from performing the rite of slaughtering sheep on Eid al-Adha this year due to a drop in the country’s herd following years of ...

Following a tip, the Agriculture and Food Board (PTA) uncovered and halted the illegal religious slaughter of sheep at a property in Aseriaru, Viru-Nigula Municipality last week. The PTA responded to ...

It was a spate of attacks that terrorised farming communities in Northamptonshire. Under the cover of darkness, hundreds of sheep and lambs were slaughtered and butchered in fields. The sheep remains ...

Sheep and lambs are being slaughtered at a Central Victorian saleyard as the impact of last year's floods and oversupply take their toll. A livestock agent says he has not seen lambs and sheep ...