Kosher food in Tesco

Terry

Minesajackdaniels wrote:

And from the same article we have the incredibly open-minded:



I particularly like the last part - if you don't do it our way, don't do it at all...

I think people place too much faith in the Western process of stunning an animal before slaughter. If you stun something, you render it incapable of defending itself or moving around. Stunned animals don't jerk about when they're slaughtered. Stunning appears to be more about the precious sensibilities of meat eaters with the added bonus of being able to use conveyor belts to transfer animals around the place for efficient mass slaughter because they're immobilised.

I don't think slaughtering something for food is ever going to be a delicate and relaxing practice that has therapeutic benefits for anyone involved. On that basis, I don't see how massive exsanguination is any more cruel than production line stunning and use of a bolt gun.

One thing I will give Halal meat - the whole point is that the animal has to be utterly drained of blood before it's butchered. If something is bloodless, it's most definitely dead. I think rather too many large animals in Western slaughterhouses go into processing while not quite dead yet.

Valid point, but you have to take into consideration that the humanists are just jumping on the bandwagon here.
I would imagine that the reporter here got the story and then went to the humanists (obviously a bunch of hippies without a clue) to get their take on it and try to make a better story out of it.

The part I don't like is this:

FAWC said it wanted an end to the exemption currently allowed for Kosher and Halal meat from the legal requirement to stun animals first.

Special exemptions for religious groups have always annoyed me.