Preserving Religious Slaughter

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Di UK bebaru ni , satu petition dalam website http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/74830

dan juga di website Islamic Cultural Centre & London Central Mosque beberapa minggu lepas

yang memaparkan kempen mendapatkan tandatangan penganut Muslim dan Yahudi dalam mengekalkan hal untuk  non stun slaughtering ataupun sembelihan mengikut upcara agama  TANPA RENJATAN.

oleh kerana website e- petition tersebut telah ditutup saya hanya dapat menyiarkan konteks kesudahan kejayaan penganjur kedua dua agama ini mengumpulkan tandatangan untuk memperjuangkan hak mereka dalam mengekalkan   sembelihan ' religious slaughter'.

Sebab di Eropah especially pejuang hak kebebasan haiwan sering membawa isu ini di website e petition dan sekiranya mendapt sejumlah minum sokongan - then benda ini akan dibahaskan di House of Commons.

so sekarang ni kesudahannya ialah dalam masa tidak kurang dari 20 hari e petition itu dibuat - hasilnya 100 000 tandatangan telah dikumpul.

dan ini adalah kisahnya

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Our petition to preserve religious slaughter in the UK and EU

Posted 19 February 2015. Updated 4 April 2015.

Together with the Jewish Representative Council of Greater Manchester and Region, we have jointly started an e-petition to protect religious slaughter in the UK and EU.

We see the right to practice religious slaughter as a fundamental to the religious freedom of Jews and Muslims. It is an integral part of Judaism and Islam that only certain animals can be eaten, and they must be slaughtered in the way that is prescribed by the religion.

That is why the European Union law regarding animal slaughter and the UK law regarding animal slaughter both exempt slaughter carried out in accordance with religious requirements from the otherwise statutory requirement to pre-stun the animal.

“Animal welfare lobbyists” regularly contend that killing animals without pre-stunning is cruel, and that the religious freedom of Jews and Muslims should be overridden by banning animal slaughter without pre-stunning.

Such a ban would not only override religious freedom; it would also do nothing to reduce animal suffering. There is much evidence that slaughter carried out in accordance with Jewish kosher and Muslim halal requirements is not cruel. The American animal welfare expert Temple Grandin of the Department of Animal Science at Colorado State University has carried out much work on this topic, some of which can be found at the link http://www.grandin.com/ritual/rec.ritual.slaughter.html We have written about this before on our website.

An e-petition created by Sally Burnell “End non-stun slaughter to promote animal welfare” has received over 100,000 signatures (114,902 at the time of writing) and is therefore is eligible for a debate in the House of Commons.

Accordingly our two organisations decided to create a petition to protect religious slaughter. Since all e-petitions must be created by a single individual, the petition is in the name of Mohammed Amin, who is the Muslim Co-Chair of the Muslim Jewish Forum of Greater Manchester. The petition went live at 08:00 on Friday 13 February.

The e-petition is no longer available on Parliament's e-petitions website as that has been closed upon the dissolution of Parliament on 30 March 2015.

The petition gained support rapidly. At the time of writing on 19 February, it had received over 49,000 signatures. The 100,000 signatures needed to be eligible for a debate in the House of Commons were achieved in about nine days, and after 12 days the total number of signatures had exceeded that of Sally Burnell's petiton which had been open since April 2014!

Jonny Wineberg, a Vice-President of the Jewish Representative Council of Greater Manchester and Region and member of our Executive said "The slaughter of animals is an emotive issue, which often leads to subjective judgments. The research shows that religious slaughter without pre-stunning, when done properly, causes virtually no pain to an animal. The focus should be on setting the highest possible standards for slaughter done both with and without pre-stunning, and measures to ensure that they are met, rather than attacking religious slaughter."

Mohammed Amin, our Co-Chair said “I am pleased by the rapidity with which people have signed this petition. Citizens of the UK who believe in the importance of preserving religious freedom need to make their voices heard in this manner.”

(c) The Muslim Jewish Forum of Greater Manchester is a company limited by guarantee. Registered in England. Company No. 5480738. Registered Office: c/o Manchester Multifaith Centre, 2'nd Floor, Ada House, 77 Thompson Street, Manchester, M4 5FY. Registered as a charity with HM Revenue & Customs.


source :
http://www.muslimjewish.org.uk/P ... ition-Feb-2015.html

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Pro-religious slaughter e-petition smashes signature target
23 February, 2015
By Georgi Gyton

An e-petition calling for non-stun slaughter to be supported in the UK and the EU has smashed through its 100,000 signature target, only days after it was launched.

The Muslim Jewish Forum of Greater Manchester, together with the Jewish Representative Council of Greater Manchester and Region, decided to launch the petition, which began collecting signatures on 13 February.

It calls for a focus on improving the competence of slaughterers, rather than simply attacking non-stun slaughter methods, which it claims have been shown to minimise suffering.

The total number of signatories now stands at more than 122,000 – more than the counter-petition from the British Veterinary Association (BVA) – with the issue now eligible for debate in parliament.

The debate on the issue of non-stun slaughter, following the BVA’s successful e-petition, is due to take place at Westminster Hall at 4.30pm today (23 February).

John Blackwell, president at the BVA, said: "The BVA has long argued that all animals should be stunned before slaughter to render them insensible to pain and we are pleased that the British public has got so firmly behind our campaign, which is based on scientific evidence.

"For BVA and our members, this is a matter of animal welfare at slaughter, plain and simple. We have never – nor would we – argue against religious slaughter. We categorically refute any suggestion that this is an anti-Muslim or anti-Jewish campaign.

"We have met with, and are keen to continue our positive discussions with, representatives of the halal and kosher meat industry to explore where we can work together to improve animal welfare at slaughter.

However Jewish organisation Shechita UK has accused the BVA of being "negligent, obsessed and politically driven".

Shimon Cohen, director of Shechita UK, said: "There have been two comprehensive and balanced debates on religious slaughter in little over a year, for animal welfare groups to push for a third is wild-eyed and obsessive.

"The BVA are currently being negligent in their duty to protect animals. If there is a genuine interest in improving animal welfare standards at time of slaughter, we need to look at many areas like abattoir practices, CCTV and mis-stunning. This fixation with religious slaughter beggars belief."

Meanwhile the Halal Monitoring Committee UK has said the BVA’s petition smacks of hypocrisy, as recent footage highlighted in the media shows the abuse of animals in both stun and non-stun slaughterhouses.

"How many members of the public, or indeed, members of parliament are actually aware of the greater abuse and longer-term suffering of animals before they reach the slaughterhouse?" it asks. "And how many have bothered to find out about the abuses that are occurring in non-religious slaughterhouses, including those labelled as organic."

It said the demands from consumers should be that wherever and however animal slaughter takes place, it is done with the utmost care for the animal.
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