18 June 2011

Australian RSPCA renews its challenge to halal slaughter

.... in the wake of those unpleasant revelations, the RSPCA in Australia is setting its sights on halal slaughter of non-stunned animals within Australia. They also disapprove of kosher slaughter, but I suspect they will find it easier to persuade Jews to acquiesce to the laws of the land, than to persuade the Muslims.

And the halal trade is a far, far bigger component of ritually slaughtered meat in Australia, than kosher, our Jewish community being only about 80 000 strong and not all of those strictly observant, as opposed to some hundreds of thousands of aggressive, domineering, constantly whingeing Muslims. [The Iconoclast] Read more