Britain goes halal... but no-one tells the public: How famous institutions serve ritually slaughtered meat with no warning
Animal welfare campaigners have long called for a ban on the traditional Islamic way of preparing meat – which involves killing animals by drawing a knife across their throats, without stunning them first – saying it is cruel and causes unnecessary pain.
Sharia law expressly forbids knocking the animal out with a bolt gun, as is usual in British slaughter houses. Instead, it must be sentient when its throat is cut, and the blood allowed to drip from the carcass while a religious phrase in praise of Allah is recited.
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sneaky or what
as an animal lover i find this disturbing as i would never go out of my way to buy something that had been slaughtered in this manor .
it seems deceitful to say the least ,i expect better treatment of live stock in the uk .
