Retailers in the UK will not be forced to label halal and kosher meat after a bill proposed by a member of the House of Commons was narrowly voted down.
Philip Davies, a Conservative member of Parliament, wanted to make it compulsory for all such meat products to carry a label saying ‘Killed without stunning’ to stop consumers buying the meat “without their knowledge,” he said.
In the debate, Davies argued that kosher and halal meat was being “forced upon” non-religious shoppers.
However the bill was rejected after a first reading by 73 votes to 70.
The Labor Party MP Gerald Kaufman spoke out against compulsory labelling, saying: “I am an Orthodox Jew and I was brought up in a household where only kosher meat was eaten. I do not believe for a moment that Philip Davies has the tiniest anti-Semitic feeling in him. However, large numbers of Jews would be very greatly distressed if what he proposes were to become law.”
…why would they object to stunning?
The main purpose of those campaigning in England is to stop Halal meat being sold to the mainstream English meat market due to the cruelty involved.
If labels are put on meat that isn’t stunned, kosher meat inevitably fits into the same category.
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our enemies have lost this fight in england
Readers are likely to be confused: why would kosher meat *not* be labelled? The answer is that this is not about kosher meat but about meat that is geshochten but is sold as treif. Any animal that is found to be neveila or treifa, as well as the back halves of all the kosher animals, is sold to the goyim and ends up in the supermarket among all the treif meat. The goy who buys it has no idea that it was geshochten, and really it’s none of his business; the meat is just as good, so why should he… Read more »