Denmark bans kosher and halal slaughter ...animal rights come before religion’

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Denmark bans kosher and halal slaughter as minister says ‘animal rights come before religion’

Denmark’s government has brought in a ban on the religious slaughter of animals for the production of halal and kosher meat, after years of campaigning from welfare activists.

The change to the law, announced last week and effective as of yesterday, has been called “anti-Semitism” by Jewish leaders and “a clear interference in religious freedom” by the non-profit group Danish Halal.

European regulations require animals to be stunned before they are slaughtered, but grants exemptions on religious grounds. For meat to be considered kosher under Jewish law or halal under Islamic law, the animal must be conscious when killed.

Yet defending his government’s decision to remove this exemption, the minister for agriculture and food Dan Jørgensen told Denmark’s TV2 that “animal rights come before religion”.

Commenting on the change, Israel’s deputy minister of religious services Rabbi Eli Ben Dahan told the Jewish Daily Forward: “European anti-Semitism is showing its true colours across Europe, and is even intensifying in the government institutions.”

Al Jazeera quoted the monitoring group Danish Halal, which launched a petition against the ban, as saying it was “a clear interference in religious freedom limiting the rights of Muslims and Jews to practice their religion in Denmark”.

Marius the giraffe, who was shot dead and autopsied in the presence of visitors to the gardens at Copenhagen zoo The ban has divided opinions in the country, particularly after it recently made headlines for animal welfare policy after Copenhagen Zoo slaughtered the “surplus” young male giraffe Marius.

On Twitter, David Krikler (@davekriks) wrote: “In Denmark butchering a healthy giraffe in front of kids is cool but a kosher/halal chicken is illegal.”

Byakuya Ali-Hassan (@SirOthello) said it was “disgusting” that “the same country that slaughtered a giraffe in public to be fed to lions… is banning halal meat because of the procedures”.

Mogens Larsen (@Moq72), from Aalborg in Denmark, tweeted: “Denmark bans the religious slaughter of animals. Not even zoo lions are allowed a taste of halal giraffe.”

Last year politicians in Britain said they would not be outlawing religious slaughter despite “strong pressure” from the RSPCA, the National Secular Society and other activists.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/denmark-bans-halal-and-kosher-slaughter-as-minister-says-animal-rights-come-before-religion-9135580.html

[Novembro 1,763]

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[Karee 4,190]

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[The Nature Boy 4,224]

Common sense 1. Religious voodoo 0.

Amen Brother Amen

[sandinista! 1,816]

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The US Humane Slaughter Act allows for shechita and zabihah slaughter, because done properly they offer just as humane and painless a death as for stunned animals. Temple Grandin's research has found no cause whatsoever to ban these two forms of slaughter on an animal welfare basis. Neither has Dr Regenstein's at Cornell. Some people don't think it's ok to inflict skull fractures, electrocution, or gassing on animals prior to killing them.

Curiously enough, there's been no non-stunned slaughter done in Denmark in years anyways. A pointless solution looking for a problem. It's unfortunate Denmark's notoriously heinous pig farms can't muster the same response, or whales hunted in the Danish Faroe Islands, or Denmark's status as the largest mink exporter in Europe.

[The Nature Boy 4,224]

Science 0, irrational,bigoted hypocrisy 1.

The US Humane Slaughter Act allows for shechita and zabihah slaughter, because done properly they offer just as humane and painless a death as for stunned animals. Temple Grandin's research has found no cause whatsoever to ban these two forms of slaughter on an animal welfare basis. Neither has Dr Regenstein's at Cornell. Some people don't think it's ok to inflict skull fractures, electrocution, or gassing on animals prior to killing them.

Curiously enough, there's been no non-stunned slaughter done in Denmark in years anyways. A pointless solution looking for a problem. It's unfortunate Denmark's notoriously heinous pig farms can't muster the same response, or whales hunted in the Danish Faroe Islands, or Denmark's status as the largest mink exporter in Europe.

I love animals and think it is important to be humane to them, right before we hack them up with a saw and eat them

[mota bhai 2,675]

I don't really care about animals so I see no reason to offend the religious over something this silly. I'm all for offending them, but I like the reasons to be better than this.

[lostinblue 1,989]

So the difference between shechita and zabihah slaughter,VS what is done at a slaughter plan is ?...This is just an attack on a certain group by radical peta