It’s 9 o’clock on a foggy morning in late September, and two dozen young Jews have gathered in a field to watch nine goats get shechted — slaughtered according to Jewish law. Most are fellows in the ...

Francisco Salinas, owner of El Lagunero, a taco stand, roasts goat meat near an auto body shop in unincorporated San Bernardino County. (William Liang / For The Times) To the editor: I read with ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nearly two years after a 9-year-old sobbed and pleaded that her pet goat, Cedar, not be sold and slaughtered for meat, Shasta ...

Several weeks ago, the story of a young girl and her goat named Cedar made the rounds across a range of media outlets. The Los Angeles Times was the first publication to give the sad tale fresh life ...

A mobile slaughter operation in Washington cuts travel time for livestock producers. (Photo: USDA) Small producers raising goats, sheep and swine will likely benefit from a bill signed into law last ...

A California girl was awarded $300,000 in a settlement with police who went out of their way to seize and butcher her beloved pet goat, according to reports. Jessica Long’s daughter — who was just 9 ...

The Shasta District Fair last year ended disastrously for a 9-year old girl and her goat. And it didn’t end so well for the Shasta County, Calif., fair officials who sent law enforcement hunting with ...

Federal legislation known as the Processing Revival and Intrastate Meat Exemption (PRIME) Act has been reintroduced in Congress. The PRIME Act would amend the Federal Meat Inspection Act to exempt ...

The Shasta District Fair last year ended disastrously for a 9-year old girl and her goat. And it didn’t end so well for the Shasta County, California, fair officials who sent law enforcement hunting ...