Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 23993
Meat: Ritual Slaughter
Tabled: 14 January 2025
Answered: 3 February 2025
Question
Rupert Lowe
Restore Britain — Great Yarmouth
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will take steps to commission a study into the potential impact of Halal meat on animal welfare.
Answer
Daniel ZeichnerLegislation requires that animals must be stunned prior to slaughter so that they are unconscious and insensible to pain. The only exception to the requirement to stun is where animals are slaughtered in accordance with religious rites. The Government wou...
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