One step closer to ethical consumer choices: meat from cruel religious slaughter methods and sold on open market may soon be properly labelled

The European Committee for Environment, Public Health and Food Safety has passed amendments requiring meat derived from animals which have not been pre-stunned prior to slaughter to be labelled as ‘meat from slaughter without pre-stunning’.All animals killed for kosher diets, and most for halal, are slaughtered without first rendering the animal unconscious by pre-stunning, in order to adhere to religious doctrine. This is permitted through an exception in European law on animal welfare specifically to allow these methods of religious slaughter. The BHA has long campaigned for that