Attempts to ban the production of kosher meat in the UK were dealt a major blow this week after the European Parliament voted in favour of declaring shechita a legitimate form of animal slaughter – a ruling that will be enshrined in European law and binding on all member states.
The decision comes four years after the British government rejected a recommendation by the Farm Animal Welfare Council to ban the practice.
FAWC’s Report on the Welfare of Animals at Slaughter, published in June 2003, called on the UK to repeal the right of the Jewish community to practice the religious rite, claiming that slaughter without pre-stunning was inhumane.
At the time, with the future of kosher meat under threat, the Jewish News launched a Keep Meat Kosher campaign, delivering thousands of letters from concerned readers to Number 10 Downing Street.
And in the wake of scientific evidence from lobby group Shechita in March 2005, the government acknowledged the method of slaughter was humane.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HZnQmc3U9I
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