Tags: Dr Majid Katme | Halal | halal slaughter | stunning | UK
10/5/12
By Dr Majid Katme, Islamic Medical Association UK
The Islamic Medical Association and British Muslims were shocked on 5th May 2012 to see an erroneous, misguided statement written by Professor Bill Reilly (a consultant in veterinary public health) regarding the religious slaughter of animals used by Muslims and Jews, where he accused Halal slaughter of being cruel to animals when not using secular stunning methods before slaughter!
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Tags: animal welfare | Halal | halal slaughter
8/5/12 meatinfo.co.uk
Islamic Halal slaughter has increasingly come under attack from animal rights again activists telling tales of barbaric blood-thirsty ritual slaughter. There are two distinct issues: there is the vegetarian agenda which wants to ban all consumption of animal products, and there is the animal rights lobby which argues for a humane method of slaughter.
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Tags: Halal | halal slaughter | Majid Katme | Prof Bill Reilly | Ruksana Shain | UK
6/5/12 www.bbc.co.uk
Prof Reilly says if there is no alternative to non-stun slaughter, then it ought to be kept to a minimum
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Tags: Halal | slaughtering | The Muslim Consumer as the Key Player in Halal -report
3/4/12 www.asidcom.org
The efforts made by the association known as “Integrity” and its creation of the “Tayyibah” (a gathering of about 70 Muslim associations) have permit the French Muslim communiy’s establishment of a definition of halal that has been validated by Professor Muhammad Hamidullah [1] in Paris in 1982.
Tags: animal welfare | Compatibility between the World Organisation for Animal Health and Islamic Law to the prevention of cruelty to animals during transport and slaughter | Halal | halal slaughter | Islam
26/3/12 www.oie.int
Foreword by the Director General
The purpose of this paper is to draw attention to requirements of Islamic law that relate to the humane handling of animals, including at transport and slaughter. By encouraging dialogue between veterinary services and religious authorities, the OIE aims to raise awareness of the importance of animal welfare and to reduce animal suffering globally.
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Tags: animal welfare | ANSA | Halal | halal meat
1/2/12 Press release
ANSA (Association of Non Stun Abattoirs) had a misleading and biased propaganda video attacking non stun halal removed after being notified by members.
Tags: Halal | halal meat | science of meat
29/1/12 timesofindia.indiatimes.com
Kounteya Sinha, Amit Bhattacharya & Anuradha Varma, TNN
Science of meat (Corbis Images)
Halal meat more tender, less cruel, say experts. Even as the UK Parliament refuses to servehalal meat at restaurants on its premises, fresh scientific opinion suggests halal is the better option. TOI investigates.
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Tags: Essex | free range halal chicken and organic goats | Halal | HMC | stun-free | UK
15/1/12
A small family run business has become the first to provide HMC certified free-range chicken and organic goats. ZUSS Halal based in Latchingdon, Essex, rear their own chickens and goats on their farm.
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6/1/12 economictimes.indiatimes.com
The Madhya Pradesh Gau-Vansh Vadh Pratishedh (Sanshodhan) Vidheyak might seem as bad as it gets for
meat eaters, religious minorities or defenders of civil liberties. This amendment, to an already draconian
Cow Slaughter Prevention Act, allows any person empowered by the authorities to enter and search a place on suspicion of beef being consumed there, puts the burden of proving the prosecution wrong on the accused and increases the penalty from three to seven years.
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Tags: Dr Regenstein | halal meat | halal slaughter | kosher
29/12/11 www.jewishtimes.com
Amy Landsman
“Shalom. Salaam,” Dr. Joe M. Regenstein said while greeting an audience at the Jewish Museum of Maryland.
It was fitting that Dr. Regenstein used both Hebrew and Arabic to say hello, as he is an individual who straddles the worlds of both Jews and Muslims.
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22/12/11 www.thejc.com
The Dutch government will not ban shechitah or halal slaughter outright, but said it would draw up new guidelines in an attempt to satisfy animal rights activists.
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Tags: animal welfare | Halal | halal meat | kosher | Netherlands
16/12/11 www.haaretz.com
Bill, proposed by Animal Rights Party, would have required animals be stunned before slaughter.
14/12/11
The Association of Non Stun Abattoirs (ANSA), an industry body representing traditional UK Halal slaughterhouses, on Wednesday welcomed the news that the proposed parliamentary bill to ban religious slaughter of animals in the Netherlands had been withdrawn. It was reported earlier that the bill was withdrawn after a majority of Dutch senators expressed their reservations to the ban on Halal and Kosher slaughter.
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Tags: halal slaughterhouse | Madani Halal slaughterhouse | Queens | USA
10/12/11
New York City: A lot of unusual things happen beneath the surface here. You don’t notice most of them until someone points them out. Madani Halal slaughterhouse is a great example; it’s down a backstreet in a little-known neighborhood in Queens.Every day, folks line up around the corner to choose their own live chicken or goat, watch it get slaughtered, and then take it home for dinner. In this video, we meet Imran Uddin, who left a career in corporate advertising to run the business his father started in 1996. He shows us the process and talks about how the business attracts working-class people looking for a lesser-known alternative to grocery store meat. WARNING: This video is a little graphic. » read more
Tags: Halal | Jewish | kosher | Muslim | Netherland: What is the purpose of banning Halal meat?
3/12/11
A vote was passed in April this year on bill banning slaughter of meat by Halal and kosher methods in Netherland.
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