RITUAL SLAUGHTERAs part of their religious faith, both Jews and Muslims have special dispensation from the usual rules of slaughter. Animals killed to provide their kosher or halal meat are sent to the knife fully conscious. It can be a slow, laborious and horribly painful process for a stressed and terrified creature.
For Jewish shechita slaughter, cattle are placed in an upright pen one at a time so that their head sticks out at the end. A plate is raised from the floor to support the underside of the body and the head is raised by a chin lift, which extends the animals neck so that it can be cut more easily. After the throat has been cut, a side gate is raised and a hind leg is shackled, the chin lift and belly plate are released and the animal is pulled out by a hoist and moved to an overhead rail. It is claimed that animals are killed instantly with a single cut across the neck. Sadly, the reality is different as the following description of shechita killing shows:
" The cows neck is extended by the chin lift and the animals nostrils flare, his eyes stare and he is salivating. The slaughterer cuts the cows throat by sawing the knife backwards and forwards across it 13 times. The cow violently jerks away from the knife as far as it can and its facial reaction shows pain and great aversion. The cow does not collapse for many seconds after the cut. "A huge problem with religious slaughter is that millions of animals bleed slowly. Scientists studying slaughter state " It is well recognised that unstunned calves which bleed poorly can take a long time to die. " It can take more than five minutes for the animal to stop trying to stand as normal.
Professor Donald Broom, specialist in farm animal behavior, University of Cambridge, says;
" Animals are not stunned during the Jewish sechita or the Muslim halal ritual slaughter procedures. There is a period of consciousness after the throat is cut which may last for 30 seconds to several minutes during which the animal must be in great pain and distress. As the heart still beats after stunning and blood drains from the animal just as effectively whether or not the animal is stunned there is no logical reason why stunning should not be carried out before the throat is cut. "
For Muslim halal slaughter, sheep and goats are placed on their backs in a metal cradle or simply hoisted up by a back leg before having their throat slit. Again the barbarity of this religious demand sees the animal struggling for up to a minute after being cut. Poultry are held head downwards while their throats are cut.
THE BRITISH PEOPLE`S PARTY ARE SICKENED AND SADDENED BY THIS DISGUSTING DISREGARD FOR THE LIVES AND FEELINGS OF THESE INNOCENT ANIMALS. WE IN THE BRITISH PEOPLE`S PARTY CALL ON THESE BARBARIC AND DISGRACEFUL, RELIGIOUS RITUAL SLAUGHTERS TO BE BANNED FROM TAKING PLACE ANYWHERE IN THE UNITED KINGDOM, WHETHER IT BE BY MUSLIMS OR BY JEWS.
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