The ThunderDragon: Halal Meat

06 November 2007

Halal Meat

The supermarket chain ASDA have decided to have a trial period of selling halal meat - meat from animals which have not been stunned before their throats cut - in a single store, causing animal rights groups to condemn them.

What I find amusing is that one of these groups is Vegetarians International Voice for Animals - who are presumably against the killing for meat of all animals in every way. And this decision has mean tthat they have had to come out pretty much in support of the other way of killing for meat.

When it comes down to it, people will buy and eat the food that they want to buy and eat - be it meat, halal meat, vegetaran alternatives, or anything else. If a supermarket stocks the meat, that won't necessarilly mean that more animals are killed in that way. In fact, if a large supermarket did stock halal, it would give them a chance to reduce the inhumaness of the killing.

Source: The Telegraph

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