Netherlands to ban religious slaughter

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Re: Netherlands to ban religious slaughter
Reply #30 - June 28, 2011, 09:00 PM

To support their case for the unmatched compassion of halal slaughter, Muslims often quote a German study conducted by Wilhelm Schulze from Hannover University. That study is from 1978.

In 2009, there was another study in Massey University of New Zealand, which arrived at an opposite conclusion.

PubMed abstract:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19471324

Full Paper (scroll down for pdfs):
http://mro.massey.ac.nz/handle/10179/1010?show=full

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Re: Netherlands to ban religious slaughter
Reply #31 - June 28, 2011, 09:08 PM

Quote from: Raccoon Rapist on June 28, 2011, 08:30 PM
Any evidence or strong reasoning would be appreciated. Actually that goes for all of your posts.

Thank you. We seem to disagree on the evidence or reasoning things. I will count on that. Anyway, in the end, we seem to be agreeing.

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Re: Netherlands to ban religious slaughter
Reply #32 - June 28, 2011, 09:21 PM

The 2009 report on the welfare of animals for slaughter part 2 (White Meat), commissioned by the UK government and authored by the Farm Animal Welfare Council concludes that animals go through "significant avoidable pain and distress" in the absence of pre-stunning. Part 1 of the report, published in 2003, looked at welfare of red meat animals and made the same conclusions. Unfortunately, the government responded by saying that "while the Government would prefer to see all animals stunned before slaughter" they would not change its "long-standing policy of religious tolerance" by ending the practice. A frank admission that the reason it is allowed has nothing to do with animal welfare, and everything to do with being scared of causing upset to certain special groups.

References:
http://www.fawc.org.uk/reports/pb8347.pdf
http://www.fawc.org.uk/pdf/report-090528.pdf
http://archive.defra.gov.uk/foodfarm/farmanimal/welfare/slaughter/#religiousslaughter
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Re: Netherlands to ban religious slaughter
Reply #33 - June 28, 2011, 09:40 PM

Thanks for the info chris and Stuff. Though I find the most interesting part to be that the UK government established and funds a Farm Animal Welfare Council. Silly limeys. Trix are for kids.

As I stated upthread it seems perfectly reasonable to assume that if the animal is rendered (and remains) unconscious prior to exsanguination that if would result in an at least marginally more humane method of slaughter.

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