[Livia]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

This is an interesting comment from a fairly decent if liberal article about the issue from the Grauniad

"Personally I do not object to eating halal meat provided the animal was stunned before slaughter, which is allowed. The bigger problem is with kosher meat, which is never stunned. This is an animal welfare issue not, as doubtless The Sun wishes, one about ethnicity.

However, animal welfare issues must always have precedence over those of religion. Religion, and the way in which you decide to practice it, is a choice. The animal being killed has no choice and has a right to be killed painlessly."

http://www.theguardian.com/commentis...?commentpage=1

Visit an abattoir. Then we'll talk about animal rights.

The comment is interesting only because it's both poe-faced and ill-informed. Stunning is being used more and more widely in kosher slaughter.

Anyhoo, this isn't a discussion about kosher meat, and frankly after the performance over my religion last night, no way am I engaging in a discussion about it with an atheist who's kicked off yet another furore over religion.