date:Jan 10, 2019
l welfare and religious freedom.
Halal and Jewish kosher rituals require that butchers slaughter the animal by slitting its throat and draining the blood. However, the new rules dictate that animals will have to be stunned electrically before being killed.
However, the debate is unlikely to be just an issue of animal welfare either, with right-wing nationalists also having called for a ban on ritual slaughter. This has led to concerns that Jewish and Muslim communities in Belgium are being t