Please Think Twice Before You Buy That Kebab TonightBurnley's leading animal rights' activist, Steve Smith, has made an impassioned plea for the town's Saturday night revellers to think twice before buying that kebab on their way home. In a letter to "Burnley Bravepages" from his HMP Kirkham cell, Steve asked people to remember that "all the town's Pakistani and Bangladeshi-run take-ways will be using Halal meat in their kebabs. This is meat from animals that have been ritually slaughtered, and by patronising these businesses, customers are unwittingly opening the way for another animal to die in an unbelieveably cruel way." Steve hit the local headlines back in 1998 when he picketted Burnley's 'Iceland" store after it was found to be selling Halal meat. His brave stance resulted in Iceland discontinuing its line in Halal products. Ritual slaughter is the killing of an animal by bleeding it to death after the throat is cut 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.
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