Halal and Kosher meat should labelling be mandatory?

Local farmers and small organic farmers send their animals to the same slaughterhouses as the large industrial factory farms. The animals are killed in exactly the same way, and no more kindly. The whole process is inhumane, terrifying and painful for the animals.

Sleepyhead52

paddyann54

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Kosher meat has been available for over a century,it’s not new and has not been an issue.Its only since people became aware that Muslims use a similar method it has become a problem…funny that!
As posted above there are no slaughterhouses in Scotland that kill without stunning first .

Or maybe because yet another small, shouty group of people made us aware of the fact ... funny that!

I've known about the issues with Kosher meat since uni in the late 70s Paddyanne, I remember having a similar debate to this, back then (not on SM, obvs)

Halal and Kosher methods are not so different from any other method. There really isn't a nice way of slaughtering animals for meat.
I notice that there isn't a request to have which method is used listed, only if it is Halal or Kosher.
If you are concerned about animal welfare in how it is killed, would you not want to know if the animal was stunned, electrocuted, bolt in the head, minced? Should that be on the label?

I'd say you'd probably have to either kill your own dinner, or be stricly vegan, if you wanted no gory details.
Because slaughter is gory, in all its forms.

For me, I'd rather an animal wasn't conscious when it was killed, for a religion, because I don't believe its necessary, as sn atheist.

I am a vegan and I think if you are going to eat meat you shouldn’t quibble about how it is reared or slaughtered. If you visited an abattoir or researched how cows are treated and reared you wouldn’t want to eat them no matter how they are slaughtered.

In a civilised country they should both be banned.

Humbertbear

I am a vegan and I think if you are going to eat meat you shouldn’t quibble about how it is reared or slaughtered. If you visited an abattoir or researched how cows are treated and reared you wouldn’t want to eat them no matter how they are slaughtered.

That all depends, Pasture for Life animals are reared outside from birth to death, mainly on unimproved pasture as close to their natural habitat as possible, but with the added advantage of medical teatment if they become ill.

In their natural habitat animals that become ill or injured, together with those slowing down through age become easy prey for carnivores above them in the food chain. Is being chased to death when you are old and ill and then attacked and torn apart while alive a more pleasant death than in an abattoir?

Like you I abhor the industrialised rearing of farm animals, the appalling feed lots in the United States. are horrible beyond belief, But organic-plus meat, which is what Pasture for Life is, gives animals a natural habitat and a quick carefully organised death, which is more than they would get in the wild.