AR-News: (UK) Animal welfare takes on religion

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The government has rejected a call to ban the method used to kill animals
for halal and kosher meat that is required by Muslims and Jews.

While animal welfare activists claim the process is cruel, Jews and
Muslims say the rules dictated by their ancient religious texts cannot be
changed.

BBC News Online talked to some of the interested parties in the ongoing
debate.

Last year the Farm Animal Welfare Council (FAWC) recommended that killing
animals without stunning them first caused severe suffering.

However the rules governing halal and kosher meat production say the
animal should be killed by a single cut to the throat and nothing else.

It must be alive and healthy before the slaughter, according to both the
Jewish Torah law, and the Muslim Koran. 

full story:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/3590731.stm

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