BNP WILL BAN RITUAL SLAUGHTER!

"Ritual slaughter is a cruel and savage custom which will remain legal in Great Britain only so long as the public remains silent"
Compassion in World Farming

INTRODUCTION

"In the back gardens and rear yards of Daneshouse and Stoneyholme, where 40 years ago nothing more sinister occurred than keeping of pigeons or growing cabbages, it is common now to hear the cries of tethered animals as they await slaughter".

"In Halal slaughter the knife is often blunt, with most slaughtermen untrained and unskilled. Indeed many Muslims perform slaughter in their own homes and backyards cutting the throats of animals they have purchased alive, and allowing them to slowly bleed to death."

WHAT IS RITUAL SLAUGHTER

Ritual slaughter is the killing of an animal by bleeding it to death after cutting through the main carotid artery and jugular vein whilst the animal is forcibly restrained and fully conscious.

The animal dies in great stress, fear and pain, conscious of choking to death on its own blood within 3 to 7 minutes after the initial cut has been made.

If the cut has not been administered correctly, which is often the case in Muslim abattoirs, the animal takes considerably longer to die.

This method of slaughter is banned in Sweden, Switzerland and Norway, but in Britain millions of animals die every year by ritual slaughter to satisfy the ever increasing demand for Halal meat from our rapidly mushrooming Muslim population.

It is required under the Slaughterhouses Act of 1974 that, "food animals shall either be killed instantaneously or be stunned by an approved method so that the animal is rendered insensible to pain until death supervenes."

Muslims are exempt from this Act on religious grounds.

OUR CAMPAIGN AGAINST RITUAL SLAUGHTER

British National Party councillors elected in May will campaign tirelessly to ensure that no ritual slaughter takes place within the Borough of Burnley and that no Halal meat is sold in shops within the borough.

BNP councillors will seek the appropriate guidance from organisations such as Compassion in World Farming to use all the power that is available to them at Local Authority level to combat this cruel and barbaric practice.






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