Kosher Slaughter Ban, Halal etc.

[Zelhar]

I have expanded my search in the issue of Kosher slaughter ban vs. Halal following JTFE2's question in the recent "ask JTF". Well it turns out that Switzerland has banned kosher slaughter since 1893. Norway banned shechita in 1930 and Sweden in 1937. These bans are still enforced today and they include halal slaughter as well because they all require pre-stunning. There is no question that the people who led the efforts to ban the shechita at the time where anti-semites.

New Zealand has only recently (2010) banned shechita (kosher slaughter), and they made sure that halal is not banned. In fact NZ exports large amounts of halal meat to the UK. It appears that in order to legalize halal while still banning kosher food, the Kiwis approved some version "reversible pre-stunning" that muslim butchers could perform before cutting the throat of the animal.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_aspects_of_ritual_slaughter
http://library.vetmed.fu-berlin.de/resources/global/contents/2848721/Pleiter-Helmut.pdf
http://www.fwi.co.uk/Articles/2010/09/23/123611/Meat-industry-defends-halal-slaughter-policy.htm
http://www.jpost.com/JewishWorld/JewishNews/Article.aspx?id=176872
http://www.halalunion.co.nz

[JTFenthusiast2]

I have expanded my search in the issue of Kosher slaughter ban vs. Halal following JTFE2's question in the recent "ask JTF". Well it turns out that Switzerland has banned kosher slaughter since 1893. Norway banned shechita in 1930 and Sweden in 1937. These bans are still enforced today and they include halal slaughter as well because they all require pre-stunning. There is no question that the people who led the efforts to ban the shechita at the time where anti-semites.

New Zealand has only recently (2010) banned shechita (kosher slaughter), and they made sure that halal is not banned. In fact NZ exports large amounts of halal meat to the UK. It appears that in order to legalize halal while still banning kosher food, the Kiwis approved some version "reversible of pre-stunning" that muslim butchers could perform before cutting the throat of the animal.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_aspects_of_ritual_slaughter
http://library.vetmed.fu-berlin.de/resources/global/contents/2848721/Pleiter-Helmut.pdf
http://www.fwi.co.uk/Articles/2010/09/23/123611/Meat-industry-defends-halal-slaughter-policy.htm
http://www.jpost.com/JewishWorld/JewishNews/Article.aspx?id=176872
http://www.halalunion.co.nz

Zelhar,

Thank you.  I look forward to reading this in detail tonight.  Thanks!