The HYPOCRITICAL European Commission has proposed new rules to “improve the welfare of animals during their slaughter” according to media reports. Yet in the same breath as this body tells us about their plans to “improve animal welfare during slaughter” they inform us that barbaric Halal slaughter will be allowed to continue!
Where is the logic in that we ask?
And whilst slaughterhouses will be monitored more frequently to ensure pre-slaughter stunning techniques are effective – no such considerations are to be extended to those unfortunate beasts destined for a slow Halal death.
According to one EU Commissioner for Health: “These proposals will make a real difference to the way animals are treated at the time of slaughter, as well as promoting innovation and providing a level playing field for operators” – not for the millions of cattle, sheep, lambs, goats and poultry facing inane ritual slaughter it won’t!
Meanwhile the senior policy advisor to Compassion in World Farming, Peter Stevenson, whilst welcoming the proposals said that they did not go far enough to protect animals. He is reported as saying in respect of Halal slaughter: “Whilst we fully respect religious beliefs, this should not extend to permitting a slaughter method that causes pain and distress.”
So the “bottom line” remains as before – whilst mainstream slaughter methods are to be tightened up in the interest of animal welfare – practitioners of Halal slaughter can legally continue to subject millions of beasts to a slow barbaric death in the name of religion!
As an aside, the silence of all those Labour MPs who voted for a ban on fox hunting professing their opposition to animal cruelty is, as they say, deafening. Then again the Labour Party, every bit as much as the CONservatives, are increasingly dependent upon certain ethnic minorities in terms of votes and money.
Land & People joins with the British National Party in demanding an end to this, the most prolific form of animal cruelty practised in Britain, and a ban on the importation of all meat products derived from the obscenity that is ritual slaughter
Where is the logic in that we ask?
And whilst slaughterhouses will be monitored more frequently to ensure pre-slaughter stunning techniques are effective – no such considerations are to be extended to those unfortunate beasts destined for a slow Halal death.
According to one EU Commissioner for Health: “These proposals will make a real difference to the way animals are treated at the time of slaughter, as well as promoting innovation and providing a level playing field for operators” – not for the millions of cattle, sheep, lambs, goats and poultry facing inane ritual slaughter it won’t!
Meanwhile the senior policy advisor to Compassion in World Farming, Peter Stevenson, whilst welcoming the proposals said that they did not go far enough to protect animals. He is reported as saying in respect of Halal slaughter: “Whilst we fully respect religious beliefs, this should not extend to permitting a slaughter method that causes pain and distress.”
So the “bottom line” remains as before – whilst mainstream slaughter methods are to be tightened up in the interest of animal welfare – practitioners of Halal slaughter can legally continue to subject millions of beasts to a slow barbaric death in the name of religion!
As an aside, the silence of all those Labour MPs who voted for a ban on fox hunting professing their opposition to animal cruelty is, as they say, deafening. Then again the Labour Party, every bit as much as the CONservatives, are increasingly dependent upon certain ethnic minorities in terms of votes and money.
Land & People joins with the British National Party in demanding an end to this, the most prolific form of animal cruelty practised in Britain, and a ban on the importation of all meat products derived from the obscenity that is ritual slaughter
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