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Originally Posted by danielf
Trust me. I'm no fan of religious beliefs. However, things being as they are, coupled with the fact that Halal and Kosher meat makes up a tiny proportion of the animals passing through abattoirs, I think an exemption could have been made.
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Any backwards move in legislation for welfare, animal or human, is surely a bad thing? And after speaking with several independant butchers, the "tiny proportion" is getting bigger each day, with chickens, for instance, almost almost all being killed "the halal way" as it's cheaper.
My wife's home town in France used to have about 11 local butchers, with only one of them halal. Now they are ALL halal butchers despite the local population not having anyway near a muslim majority. The original butchers went out of business as meat prices rocketted, but it seems halal butchers have an easy form of credit to move in and buy up the busineses. And all the local restaurants and fast food outlets now serve ONLY halal meats (I wonder how they get halal ham and peperoni for their pizzas
). And now the 2 local supermarkets have halal sections, well distanced from the pork section of course. ASDA here does too, but only in muslim-heavy areas.