UK Proposes Banning Halal & Kosher Slaughter
By Brian Carnell
Sunday, June 29, 2003
"Back in November 2002, UK Animal Welfare Minister Elliot Morley revealed that his office was looking into revising animal
. . . So what is the outcry really about?
The answer lies in the very terms in which the issue is framed (though not by FAWC itself): "humane" versus "ritual" slaughter. These are not merely labels for different methods. They imply two totally opposed sensibilities. . . .
Hence the lurid canards about animal being left to "slowly bleed to death", as if every ounce of pain were being wrung from their tortured bodies, and as if their more fortunate confreres, the ones who are "humanely" killed, are gently put to sleep."
Whichever method is used, all animals at the point of slaughter are subjected to a violent act while fully conscious. All are cut or "stuck" (stabbed). All die by bleeding to death. Every method can -- and does -- go wrong.