EU supports legalizing kosher slaughter, despite activists’ protest
Shechita is performed by horizontally cutting an unsedated animal’s throat with a very sharp knife and allowing the blood to drain out.
While Jewish groups have lobbied for this procedure’s legalization, animal rights groups vehemently oppose it, calling it inhumane. The UK Farm Animal Welfare Council says the method by which kosher and halal meat is produced inflicts severe suffering upon animals and should be banned.
But Melchior argues that the practice’s protocol makes it one of the most humane methods of slaughter in existence. “Traditionally, resistance to shechita was always mixed with xenophobia,” he told Haaretz. “And now the same applies to the Muslim community and their halal slaughter practices.”
What a pity that Jews and Muslims don’t work together in a more institutionalized way. Many of the same issues that plague observant Jews also plague Muslims. Oh well, this might be a good first step, don’t you think?
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