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Now that the Government has bowed to pressure from animal rights activists and banned the hunting of animals with hounds on the grounds that foxes and hares suffer unnecessarily prolonged deaths, will the Government be equally as zealous in stamping out other forms of unnecessarily prolonged deaths such as occurs in Kosher and Halal slaughterhouses? And if not, will it then explain why not? I was under the impression that the law of the land applied equally to all subjects of the crown, regardless of wealth, position or belief.
The method of slaughtering cattle, employed in Halal and Kosher slaughterhouses, involves placing the animal in a large steel cage which is then rotated through 180 degrees so that the animal is turned upside down, whereupon it’s throat is cut and it’s trachea is ripped out. The animal is not sedated or stunned in any way. The cage is then rotated once more and the animal is unceremoniously dumped on the floor of the slaughterhouse. Supporters and proponents of this method of slaughter claim that death claims the animal within a matter of seconds of the initial incision to its throat by sudden loss of blood pressure depriving the animal’s brain of blood.
In several videos, I have seen of the process ( http://www.peta.org.uk/ ) , the animals are not only fully conscious after they have been ejected from the cage, but are also able, in some instances, to stand and walk away from the cage before eventually dying up to two minutes later.
If the government is serious in it’s desire to alleviate the unnecessary suffering of animals, why is this archaic and barbaric method of slaughter still permitted? Why is it that there is apparently one law for the majority of British subjects and another quite different law for a minority of others?