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25% OF ANIMALS KILLED WITH PAIN AND DISTRESS USING HALAL

 
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PostPosted: Sat May 05, 2012 9:45 am    Post subject: 25% OF ANIMALS KILLED WITH PAIN AND DISTRESS USING HALAL Reply with quote

Religious butchering now commonplace in Britain, leading vet claims
Non-Muslim Britons are being forced to eat animals slaughtered in "appalling" pain because religious butchering is becoming so common, a former chief vet has claimed.

A quarter of all meat on the British market is now killed according to the non-stun Halal principle idiot: Richard Watt
By Nick Collins, Science Correspondent
11:30PM BST 04 May 2012

Prof Bill Reilly, ex-president of the British Veterinary Association, said cutting the throats of lambs, chickens and other animals without stunning them breaches legal requirements because it causes significant pain, fear and distress.

British and EU law permits the method of religious slaughter to account for Muslim and Jewish dietary practices, but stipulates that the animals must not be caused "unnecessary suffering."

Prof Reilly called for the practice to be dramatically curbed, suggesting that some slaughterhouses are refusing to stun animals simply to cut costs, rather than for religious reasons.

Writing in the Veterinary Record, he said the number of animals having their throats slit while still fully conscious � a practice known as non-stun slaughter � was "unacceptable".

Referring to a report by the former Animal Welfare Council he claimed that "such a massive injury could result in very significant pain and distress", particularly because the throat has a large number of nerve endings.



As a veterinary student in the 1970s he confessed to being "appalled" after witnessing orthodox Jewish Schecita slaughter for the first time, writing that "the distress, fear and pain were there for all to see (and hear) in the abattoir".

A quarter of all meat on the British market is now killed according to the non-stun Halal principle despite the fact the Muslim community makes up only three to four per cent of the British population.

An estimated two million animals, mainly chickens, are slaughtered in the Schecita method each year, and anecdotal evidence indicates that half of all lambs slaughtered in Britain are not stunned beforehand.

The figures mean that much of the meat from non-stunned animals is being consumed outside the religious communities which require it, and most secular people would avoid eating the meat if they knew the circumstances under which the animals died, Prof Teilly said.

The disparity between the amount of non-stun meat and the number of people who actually require it could be down to commercial factors, he added, because of the reduced cost of running an abattoir without stunning facilities.

He wrote: "In my view, the current situation is not acceptable and, if we cannot eliminate non-stunning, we need to keep it to the minimum.

�This means restricting the use of Halal and Kosher meat to those communities that require it for their religious beliefs, and where possible, convincing them of the acceptability of the stunned alternatives."

Discussing approaches to slaughter with religious communities has been successful in New Zealand, which exports large quantities of Halal meat despite requiring that all animals be stunned before slaughter, he said


Cannnot we find a religion that say it is a part of their culture to ritually slaughter politicians. I bet they would soon bring in legislation to ban that.

Anyone who wishes to kill an animal without stunning as every right to for religious reasons. On one condition that person has a tooth removed without any pain relief yes, thought not.

Since when were Muslims a race of people anyway? But some people still keep trying to convince us that they are.
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