America’s largest kosher chicken company, Empire Kosher Poultry, churns out 240,000 chickens and 27,000 turkeys a week. Armed with a camera, JTA Managing Editor Uriel Heilman visited the plant to document a chicken’s life from hatchery to hot dog.
A controversial ban on kosher slaughter by New Zealand’s agriculture minister has been partially reversed, allowing shechitah for poultry but banning it for beef.