Brussels – Europe Votes to Label Kosher Slaughter ‘Unstunned’

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    The plans were supported by members of The Environmental and Consumer Affairs Committee of the European Parliament Brussels – The European Parliament in Brussels voted through an amendment to a new European Union food-labeling bill that would require animals not stunned before being slaughtered to be labeled on food packaging.

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    The Environmental and Consumer Affairs Committee of the European Parliament voted through the amendment necessitating kosher meat to be labeled “unstunned before slaughter.”

    The amendment was carried by a slim majority of 34 to 28.

    Following intensive lobbying by community campaign group Shechita UK, many of the main groups in the parliament allowed a free vote – but the amendment was carried on the back of Socialist bloc votes, led by the group’s UK Labor Party MEPs.

    The regulation on the provision of food information to consumers will now be voted on by the entire parliament at the second reading in July.

    “The fight to stop this amendment is far from over,” said Shechita UK’s chairman, Henry Grunwald. “In recent months we have highlighted to a number of MEPs that this amendment does nothing to improve animal welfare, fails to fully inform consumers and is clearly discriminatory by design – and most have now chosen to reject it.

    The fact that the vote took place on Tuesday, the first day of Pessah, was not missed by the Rabbinical Centre of Europe (RCE), who called the timing “problematic and a source of inspiration” to overcome the legislation.

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    georgewashingtonbridge
    georgewashingtonbridge
    12 years ago

    Will the word “Unstunned” be displayed within a 6-pointed star?

    The Europeans have this delightful habit of repeating history. They’ve just chosen a very contemporary (read “PETA-ish”) vehicle this time.

    tzivia
    tzivia
    12 years ago

    nu, so why not have this label?
    It is true, it is unstunned before slaughter.
    Will kosher consumers stop buying the meat now and buy non kosher?

    Reb Yid
    Reb Yid
    12 years ago

    I’m unstunned. Not even a bit surprised.

    “the amendment was carried on the back of Socialist bloc votes, led by the group’s UK Labor Party MEPs.”

    The Left and the Right anti-Semites are truly the same.

    shredready
    shredready
    12 years ago

    why not just label meat that is stunned “animal stunned before slaughter” Just like one labels organic food. We do not label non organic food “non organic”

    The consumer has a right to know since many or some feel that stunning is more humane regardless of what you think.

    If you feel that it can be scientifically proven that schechta is more humane prove it

    Pereles
    Pereles
    12 years ago

    Check Temple Grandin’s website: she claims that shechita is the most humane method of slaughter (no, she’s not Jewish)

    Benny
    Benny
    12 years ago

    Same old antisemitism!
    Why don’t you label your meat “stunned” or “killed with the bang of the hammer” or “shot to death”?
    They call themselves humane!?