Animal slaughter along religious lines is permissible only under strict conditions, the interior ministry has noted.
A staggering 214 million animals were slaughtered for halal and kosher meat in a single year - with many killed without being stunned first - MPs have heard. Now former Cabinet minister Esther McVey ...
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The Muslim and Jewish communities in Flanders have criticised a proposal by the Belgian region to ban the unstunned slaughter of small animals, which they say would contravene ...
Greece’s top court has banned the halal and kosher slaughter of livestock, calling them inhumane. Muslim and Jewish groups ...
The Netherlands' parliament has passed a bill banning any slaughter of livestock without stunning, removing an exemption that has long allowed orthodox Dutch Jews and Muslims to butcher animals ...