BVA hits the headlines with call for end to ritual slaughter

RE: BVA hits the headlines with call for end to ritual slaughter

bevs2251 — Fri, 04 Apr 2014 02:31:16 GMT

Good news - we were forced to watched Kosher killing at an abattoir as a student. Horrendous ! Time these outdated & inhumane practices were banned altogether on animal cruelty grounds. It's time these people professing so-called "religious" reasons for such slaughter entered the 21st century way of life rather than wallowing in concepts dreamed up 2 millenia ago ! Animal cruelty is abhorrent, and as veterinarians, it is encumbent upon us to stamp it out, regardless of the uproar from vested interests.

In Australia, many of us vets have joined groups to ban live animal exports completely to countries that slaughter animals in unacceptable fashion. The loss of lives on the long trip over to middle eastern countries,

+ the common occurrence of fires on these ships with horrible suffering and deaths, is also completely unacceptable.

RE: BVA hits the headlines with call for end to ritual slaughter

serena holmes — Sat, 08 Mar 2014 21:18:20 GMT

The sooner this is banned the better

RE: BVA hits the headlines with call for end to ritual slaughter

grumpyoldman — Sat, 08 Mar 2014 09:28:58 GMT

I always knew they would come down on the right side in the end.

RE: BVA hits the headlines with call for end to ritual slaughter

Hannah Wynne Richards — Thu, 06 Mar 2014 16:05:54 GMT

Well done BVA

Wynne

RE: BVA hits the headlines with call for end to ritual slaughter

Arlo Guthrie — Thu, 06 Mar 2014 15:47:18 GMT

Update. The BVA has issued a statement you can read here: www.bva.co.uk/.../3736.aspx

RE: BVA hits the headlines with call for end to ritual slaughter

Timothy Miles — Thu, 06 Mar 2014 14:46:50 GMT

Here we go again! The arguments are well rehearsed and the science is well established. There is no justification to allow this inhumane practice to continue save on so called religious grounds. It is a pity the focus is not placed more on the middlemen in the meat industry that make fat profits on those "unusable" parts of the Schechita carcase that are released unlabelled to the unsuspecting public at full humanely slaughtered animal carcase prices.

I write as one that has experienced both sides of the fence both scientifically and " professionally" - Tim Miles MRCVS

Ex MLC, RSPCA, MAFF and Smithfield.