Britain May Ban Muslim And Jewish Animal Slaughter Methods

[Jahnava Nitai Das]

From the Hindustan times

 

LONDON, U.K., May 17, 2003: The British Government appears ready to ban

the slaughter of animals without stunning them. This would affect the

supply of halal meat (animals that are slaughtered according to the

Islamic sharia law.) For the last few years, authorities have gone out

of their way to accommodate the request by the Muslim community to

provide only halal meat for Muslim students in schools and even for

Muslim convicts serving jail sentences. Under a new proposal to be put

forward next month, Jewish and Muslim communities would lose the legal

right to slaughter animals without stunning them. The communities have

reacted angrily saying that such a ban would end thousands of years of

religious rites. Under the European Union animal welfare regulations,

all farm animals must be stunned before slaughter, unless they are

killed by religious methods as halal for Muslims and schechita for

Jews. Both methods involve religiously trained slaughter men using

sharp knives to cut throats and let the animal bleed to death. The Farm

Animal Welfare Council, appointed and funded by the government, has

concluded a study that finds Jewish and Muslim methods of slaughter

inhumane because it takes two minutes or more for the animal to lose

consciousness.

[theist]

Here we see the difference between mundane religion and spiritual realization. The mundane religionists' are hung up so much on some outdated scripts that they are aggrieved so much just to show a tiny speck of compassion for their animal victim.

 

"O woe upon woe, God will surely be angry that the animal didn't suffer enough."

 

Such practices should be outlawed by the state to protect its animal citizens. I think God will forgive us for showing a little compassion.

 

[Streetstraw]

"Rolling Stones sang "You can tell by her blood-stained hands"

Both these groups worship a confused God who (they say) says:

Thou Shalt Not Kill", then later appears to again sanction killing.

They haver never tasted Hari-prasAd: their misfortune.