AR-News: (UK) Government Rejects Call to Stun Animals Before Slaughter

[Animalara2003 at aol.com]

By Graham Hiscott, Consumer Affairs Correspondent, PA News 


A recommendation on the religious slaughter of animals which would have 
affected Jewish and Muslim communities was rejected by the Government today.

The Farm Animal Welfare Council (FAWC) said not stunning livestock before 
slaughter was “unacceptable” and urged ministers to make the practice illegal.

But the Government has decided a ban would just “export the problem”, with 
kosher and halal meat imported instead.

FAWC, a Government advisory body, published a report in June last year after 
looking into the slaughter of red meat animals – cattle, sheep, pigs, wild 
boar, deer, horses and ostriches.

The Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs backed most of the 
94 recommendations in the report.






full story:

http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=2727279 
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