This article exposes the hypocrisy of the Halal industry in the UK and outlines the arguements for why killing an animal without stunning it is neither practical nor ethical.
Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Decca Aitkenhead investigates the halal industry: ” In June the Food Animal Welfare Council produced a report which claimed that halal and kosher methods of slaughtering animals were inhumane, and should be outlawed immediately. Animal welfare should not, it said, be sacrificed to religious freedom. Many commentators agreed; columnists wrote of their horror at animals ‘writhing in agony’ and ‘gurgling in their own blood’, and animal welfare campaigners came out in support of the FAWC report. “
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