Meat sold in British shops should be labelled to say whether the animal it came from was stunned at slaughter as many killed in accordance with religious rites are not, an MP will say today.
Tory Neil Parish (Tiverton and Honiton) will also ask the Government to look at ways to persuade Jewish and Muslim communities to stun more animals at slaughter.
Mr Parish highlighted a report by the all-party parliamentary group for beef and lamb that he chairs, which called for research and demonstrations that showed animals can be stunned and their slaughter remain compliant with religious beliefs.
For both halal and kosher meat, animals are killed by cutting their throats, often without pre-stunning them. [Press Association] Read more
