I was so glad to hear that the Dutch Parliament has passed a bill for all livestock to be stunned before slaughter. The ruling removes exemptions that allowed Jews and Muslims to butcher animals according to their religious beliefs.
Animals in Holland now have to be stunned before being slaughtered in halal or kosher rituals, except if it could be proven they would suffer less without it which I think unlikely because the animals have to have their throats cuts while still alive and then bleed to death.
The Dutch Party for the Animals, the world's first animal rights party to win seats in a national parliament, welcomed the approval of the bill, first introduced in 2008, that now has to go before the Dutch Senate.
If the Netherlands stops Jewish or Muslim slaughter methods it will be the second country after New Zealand to do so in recent years and will join Switzerland, Scandanavia and Baltic countries.
The ruling spares animals needless pain and distress.
The threat of the ban has brought protests from religous groups who say it imposes on their right to freedom of religion.
However the majority of Dutch voters support the ban and the Parliament voted for it 116-30. Many Dutch see ritual religious slaughter as inhumane and barbaric.
Personally I've always thought it weird that goody goody religious people want to kill animals in a cruel ritual before they will eat the poor creature. It's all so öther age" and historically past its use by date.
Here's hoping that eventually all countries will adopt the same type of legislation regarding animal slaughter.
Meanwhile God bless the Dutch !!!
Meanwhile God bless the Dutch !!!
There is no way that any cause, religion, belief, culture or custom in this world can justify the torture or inhumane killing of animals.
James Larkin
Help Animals Australia. I do.
