GRASS VALLEY, Cali. (CNN) — On to a new and better life! A thousand chickens landed in northern California on Saturday night after being saved from an Iowa slaughter by an animal rescue. You could ...

FILE - This Dec. 2, 2008, file photo shows a chicken farm just outside the city limits of Pittsburg, Texas. Citing hundreds of thousands of chickens being accidentally dropped alive into scalding ...

Five dozen live chickens tumbled to freedom this week after a truck driver transporting them to a slaughterhouse upstate turned too hard, knocking their cages onto a street in Williamsburg, of all ...

Every hour, some 1,000,000 chickens, 14,000 pigs, and 4,000 cows are slaughtered for human consumption in the United States. It is a process that takes place far from public view, and one that few ...