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Meat Marketers Want to Sell You on Humane Slaughter
As conscious consumers are opting for humanely raised meats, butcher shops and restaurants are now taking the next step in telling people that their meat is humanely slaughtered.
Question of the Day: What do You Know About Halal?
Both Pauline Hanson and supporters for Reclaim Australia have suggested that halal food funds terrorism. We took to the streets to find out how widespread these beliefs are.
ISIS Destroyed Hundreds of Boxes of American Chicken in Food-Starved Syria
Images have emerged online that purportedly depict members of the Islamic State destroying hundreds of boxes of US-produced chicken legs intended for civilians.
Keeping Kosher in Ghana Means Bringing Your Own Killing Knife
One day, as three friends and I were staying in Ghana, we thought some fresh goat meat might hit the spot. Luckily, a member of our party grew up on a back-to-the-land hippie farm that followed kosher practices, and had brought his special slaughtering...
The Happiest Pigs Live on a Diet of Muesli and Fresh Air
Recently, I joined some of Berlin's culinary luminaries to embark on the necessary first step of the Schlachtfest—a traditional German feast that revolves around the slaughter of a farm animal.
How a Pig Farmer Taught Me to Respect Her Pork
Commercial slaughterhouses aren’t that keen on wafty ex-vegetarian writers coming down to see kill their pigs, but Anna Longthorp—one of Yorkshire's few female pig farmers—invited me to see everything, from birth to bacon.
India’s Hindu-Majority Government Is Taking Its Islamophobia Out on Beef Slaughterhouses
There’s a battle brewing in India, and unsurprisingly it centers on a highly controversial practice there: cow slaughter.
Eating Blood Shouldn't Curdle Yours
Eating blood leads to collective gasps of horror. But why? Is the process too confrontational? Is the intense flavor too much for the average tastebuds to handle? Cooking with it is making a comeback in the kitchen—or at least on the dessert plate.
Secret Video Shows Horrific Animal Abuse in UK Halal Slaughterhouse
The footage includes a worker jumping on the neck of a conscious animal, and four men have been suspended from the Yorkshire slaughterhouse. But experts say this isn't just a halal problem.
Keep It Canada: New Brunswick
Matty heads to New Brunswick to hang out with his friend/spirit animal, Chef Jesse Vergen. The two hit the driving range, dig into caviar production, and make a lamb feast for Matty's mom.
Best Of 2014: Meet Your Meat
There's no easy way around it: Eating meat involves killing an animal. We looked at several sides of that potentially hazardous moral quandary this year—and every one of them had a face.
Should We Tune In to the Sound of Turkeys Being Slaughtered?
Controversy has erupted in the UK over whether a radio station should auction off the lives of—and slaughter on air—a pair of adorable turkeys named Sage and Onion.