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Because there is no European Union-wide regulation on slaughter without stunning, individual countries have decided for themselves whether to permit or ban kosher slaughter. In Germany, kosher slaughter was banned three months after Adolf Hitler was elected , and was subsequently banned in all Nazi-occupied countries, like Italy and Hungary.
The bans were removed after the war ended. When it comes to kosher slaughter, the animals cannot be stunned before they are killed. When people often animal rights activists talk about restricting kosher slaughter, they are talking about un-stunned stunned versus un-stunned animals, and arguing that killing animals without stunning them should not be allowed. Animal health experts and campaigners disagree. Unlike halal, the Jewish method of slaughter, known as Shechita, cannot involve pre-slaughter stunning at all.
According to The Independent , existing European law requires animals to be stunned before they are slaughtered, but grants exemptions on religious grounds. Both halal and kosher ways of killing are now illegal in the southern region of Flanders, where animals now have to be electronically stunned before they can be killed. The ban is set be extended to Wallonia in southern Belgium from September, meaning the only place where it will be possible to buy halal or kosher meat will be Brussels, which is home to around , Muslims and 30, Jews.
We call on legislators to step back from the brink of the greatest assault on Jewish religious rights in Belgium since the Nazi occupation of the country in World War Two.
The British government has repeatedly resisted pressure from animal welfare groups such as the RSPCA to outlaw halal slaughter without pre-stunning and opposed EU measures that would have required meat to carry labels confirming whether it came from animals that had been stunned before slaughter on the grounds they discriminated against Muslim and Jewish groups.
However, it is as yet unclear how regulations surrounding halal meat will be affected once Britain leaves the EU. In a highly publicised case last year, Lancashire council became the first local authority to ban unstunned halal meat in school dinners. Following an impassioned and at times bitter campaign between council leader Geoff Driver and the local Muslim community, the Conservative-controlled council narrowly voted for the ban. The decision prompted calls for Muslim students to boycott school lunches and provoked a war of words between Muslim leaders, the council and animal rights groups.
The Daily Mail has cited new figures from the Foods Standards Agency which show the number of sheep slaughtered in Britain without being stunned had doubled in six years, to more than three million. A study measuring stunning efficiency found that one-eighth of cows were ineffectively stunned — far greater than the proportion denied prior stunning due to halal and kosher rules in countries like Belgium.
The global wastage of animal lives has further intensified during the pandemic, with millions killed off not for food, but simply to relieve the pressure on glutted production lines. Then as now, professions of humanitarianism coincided with the extension of domination.
A centuries-old anti-Semitic tradition that endures at events like the Aalst parade in Belgium, where caricatured Jews have been portrayed in recent years as ants. In contrast to this self-serving and self-congratulatory humanitarianism — premised on continuing domination with perhaps somewhat mitigated brutalisation — scholars of subjugated traditions are recovering other possibilities for justice and liberation.
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