Poland’s top court has ruled that the religious slaughter of animals is illegal, weeks before an EU law allowing the practice takes effect.
The Constitutional Tribunal said it was against Polish law to allow animals to have their throats cut and bleed to death without first being stunned.
Poland has small Muslim and Jewish communities who use such methods.
Poland now has until the end of the year to decide whether to opt out of the new EU law allowing the practice.
Categories: Islamic Food, Poland
People should be aware that most slaughter is now on the ‘halal’ principle, in that slaughterhouses play religious tapes all day long, whilst animals have their throats cut on conveyor belts, and some use a knife inscribed with religious words to do the job – apparently that makes the killing ‘halal’.
A further point. I’ve seen this meat in supermarkets. It’s all factory farmed meat, unrealistically cheap and of poor quality. And no person of conscience should support factory farming, which is cruel and barbaric to the extreme.
If they justify stunning before slaughtering, how do they know it’s effect on the animal?
In fact, the Islamic way of slaughter is the best method since when the throat is cut (with a sharp knife), at one go, all blood leaves the brain as the carotid arteries and jugular veins are severed and the animal dies immediately to all intents and purposes. And as Muslims are not allowed to eat blood, all this is also let out of the body due to the involuntary movements of the animal since the spine is still intact and the animal has not become paralyzed.
Consuming the flesh of an animal where the blood hasn’t been let out properly is highly unhealthy and it also spoils the meat faster.
Why are the Polish authorities (including animal rights groups), so insistent on stunning at the expense of people’s health? Just because they can’t ‘see’ the supposed ‘suffering’ (shedding of blood and the involuntary movements of ritual slaughter), does not mean that the animal is not suffering when stunned, etc.