Originally posted by blahshit:
f u c k sia.. might as well kill the fish once and for all.. wah lao.. leave it like that, wan to die, dun wan to die that pattern.. wah lao eh.. damn la..
Colin Blackstock
Thursday May 15, 2003
The Guardian
Jewish and Muslim communities could lose the legal right to slaughter animals without first stunning them under new proposals from a government committee due to be published next month.
The government funded Farm Animals Welfare Council has been researching slaughter methods and animal welfare. In its report it is expected to conclude that the Muslim and Jewish methods of slaughter are inhumane.
The proposals are likely to anger religious leaders from both communities and if made law end hundreds of years of religious rites.
European animal welfare regulations stipulate that all farm animals must be stunned prior to slaughter, unless they are to be killed by religious methods, such as halal for Muslims and shechita for Jews. This involves a religiously trained slaughterman
cutting the throat of a cow, sheep or chicken and letting it bleed to death.
The FAWC says this is inhumane and should be abolished. However the proposals, discussed between the council and religious groups have proved contentious.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,956385,00.html