halal slaughter

Halal slaughter

I just came across a petition to regulate the practice of Islamic

Halal slaughter to prevent animal cruelty, which was rejected by the

government. Normally, animals must be stunned before they are killed,

but there is a religious exemption for Jewish and Muslim

slaughterhouses on the grounds of their beliefs - even though the same

advice says "the Government would prefer that all animals were stunned

before slaughter"! The intellectual case has obviously been won, but

the political one clearly has not.

So, you are required by law to treat animals humanely, unless you

convince the government that you feeling "spiritually pure" is more

important than an animal having its life ended painlessly.

Slavery is condoned in all three Abrahamic texts, but it is not deemed

morally acceptable by the three faiths now. Muslim and Jewish

organisations should extend the same principles in treating other

humans morally to animals, and end the practice of slaughtering

animals without stunning them first.

What can you do? Sign the petition to end religious exemptions in law,

whether it be for animal slaughter, adoption, or any other type of