animals
Danish Jews, Muslims fight for exemption to ritual slaughter ban
By Robin Herr — February 25, 2014
COPENHAGEN Denmark (RNS) The Danish government approved a measure earlier this month forbidding poultry and livestock to be killed without being stunned first. But Jewish and Muslim customs require animals to be conscious when killed.
Why the suffering of animals sometimes hurts most
By Rachel Marie Stone — February 20, 2014
Part of human longing for home--a longing that often looks a lot like faith--seems to include the hope that not just we, but our animals, too, will find a place beyond suffering, beyond fear, beyond death itself.
A Brooklyn museum has every biblical animal — but no money to stay open
By David Gibson — January 2, 2014
BROOKLYN, N.Y. (RNS) All of the specimens at Torah Animal World died of natural causes, swears Rabbi Shaul Shimon Deutsch, and were not hunted in the wild: “Instead of turning them into a fur coat I use them for education.”
On Eid al-Adha, tradition gives way to online innovation
By Richard S. Ehrlich — October 16, 2013
(RNS) Instead of going to the markets, Pakistani and Bangladeshi customers prefer websites that show photographs of live cows and goats for sacrifice.
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