Rabbis denounce EU meat label bid as ‘insult’ to Jews
22/4/11
The FINANCIAL – European rabbis are up in arms over a bid to impose meat labels indicating how an animal was slaughtered, warning it could kill the kosher food business by portraying their ritual as “barbaric.”
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EU: MEPs Back Meat Labelling Plan
21/4/11
A European Parliament committee has backed a proposal for meat to be labelled as “from slaughter without stunning”.
UK: Religious slaughter meat should be labelled, says minister
1/4/11 www.telegraph.co.uk
Meat that has been slaughtered in a religious way should be clearly labelled, according to the Food and Farming minister.
behalal poster for your mosques or shops.
This poster is in response to amendment #205 that has been added to a Regulation on the provision of food information to consumers. Although the majority of the Bill is concerned with labelling food products with nutritional information, amendment #205, tabled by German MEP Renate Sommer, requires all meat products derived from animals that have been slaughtered by dhabh without the use of pre-stunning to be labelled as ‘meat from slaughter without stunning‘.
Help us get the message out. Join our campaign. Simply click on the poster link BELOW and download it to your computer. It is artwork ready, so you can have it printed out for your mosque or shop. Ideal size is A2 – ask your printer.
behalal campaign poster Oct 2010
click on CAMPAIGN: EU singles out Halal & Kosher meat for special treatment for more information.
CAMPAIGN: EU singles out Halal and Kosher meat for special treatment.
EU labelling proposals for meat and meat products to ONLY carry the label “Meat from animals slaughtered without stunning”.
Yes, things are brewing as you read this article. Fact: Animals slaughtered without stunning are banned in Switzerland, Sweden, Norway, and Iceland and recently in New Zealand. It’s happening right on our doorstep in Europe. Our concern is that it may be eventually bought in through the back door and imposed on us all in the UK too.
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