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Why doesnt the RSPCA end Halal/ kosher meat slaughter?
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If you cut the throat of your pet and let it bleed to death, you would be up in court (rightly so).
And yet everyday in the slaughterhouses of the UK this happens.
Why are the RSPCA doing absolutely nothing about it - where are the arrests?
And yet everyday in the slaughterhouses of the UK this happens.
Why are the RSPCA doing absolutely nothing about it - where are the arrests?
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However, the rules are always different for livestock. Some animals are lesser than others to human eyes.
Personally I'd like to ban the entire factory meat industry. We're not even supposed to eat that much meat. 80% of it could disappear from people's diets and they'd only feel healthier as a result.
Agree with this and I'm a meat eater. I think, as a society, we eat far too much meat nowadays.
It makes the indigenous people feel less racist if they allow this to happen, even if it flies in the face of everything they truly believe in.
There is your answer succinctly put.
I'm completely against halal (and kosher) slaughter but your argument ignores the fact there are other religious exemptions to laws everyone else has to follow. It's not only Muslims who are granted special rights due to their faith.
It's all a nonsense. If something is worth legislating over then proclaiming belief in any particular deity should not exempt anybody from these laws.
I don't like the Halal method of slaughter but I don't like UK way of slaughter either.
How could they do that? So far as I know it is legal as long as it is done according to correct procedure. Like kosher meat for the Jews what is needed is for the deed to be done as humanely as possible and still fulfil the religious requirements, I am not a Muslim or a Jew but believe religious freedom is necessary for us all just like freedom of speech is. It allows individuals and groups freedoms that otherwise would be controlled by the state. How long (I ask myself) would it be before we had a dictatorial form of government if we lost the three fundamentals of freedom of speech, belief and action, which we presently enjoy here in the UK. :rolleyes:
Did you really?
That's so 1930's.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2010/sep/20/halal-meat-the-truth
Do non-muslims eat their pets non-halal then? Why doesn't the RSPCA stop people BBQ-ing their cats and hamsters?
Sorry animal rights come before religious rights in any decent and caring society.
because if i killed my pet calf in exactly the same way it is done in a slaughterhouse, i would be in court.
How quickly the debate took Kosher slaughter out of the equation and turned it's attention exclusively to Islam/Muslims.
In actual fact, no Kosher meat is processed in the UK from animals stunned prior to slaughter whereas the vast majority (approx. 85%) of Halal slaughter is pre-stunned:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-18187137
So what's the reasoning behind the reluctance to tackle Kosher slaughter? Does it make the indigenous population feel less racist too?
Also, preventing animal cruelty goes far beyond the debate about stunning or not stunning. Why don't people kick up as much of a fuss about the appalling conditions some animals are raised in, even before they reach the slaughterhouse?
10% is a lot. If you record a figure, somebody must know about it.
Never mind that pigs are as intelligent and inquisitive as dogs. People want their bacon sandwiches.
Except Muslims and Jews of course
Really and what do you think would happen to you if you just killed your pet calf anyway? Like by stunning it. Or shooting it? Please explain why you think the RSPCA/Police/Courts wouldn't be interested in that.
I agree, but it should be very quick and easy to fix the method of killing the animals, to make it as stress free and painless as possible.
Bleeding to death is just not right, and cannot be justified on any level.
If i killed a pet by slitting its throat and letting it bleed to death, i would be in court on grounds of animal cruelty.
If i dispatched, say, a pet dog quickly and painlessly, via a bolt to the head, i would not be in court.
How much of a fuss have you kicked up?