If im eating religous meat then i want to know about it.

Some people dont give a toss what they eat.

But i will not eat food which has been prepared in a ridiculous 2000 year old beleif.

I support this, despite being a bit of an anti EU Anglophile...

You currently have the labelling to tell you whether your food is GM or not, where it comes from, what farm etc. I would like to know that my meat has been properly slaughtered too, and not butchered like savages because some dusty tome written by goat-herders who lived in a desert 3,000 years ago said so...

. However, I do eat alot of pork and I can be pretty certain that no Rabbi or Imman has been anywhere near that meat!

I am neither muslim nor jewish, yet think this proposal is silly.

They never bothered to have labels on before telling consumers there meat was from animals which were stunned before slaughter, so why have labels "warning" us of those which aren't stunned before slaughter?

How is either way more humane than the other? At the end of the day the meat gets eaten.

I won't support this.

On the one hand, I agree with the OP but in the end - is not the animal dead? Kosher meat (tortured) and Kobe beef (treated like royalty) both meet the same fate. I mean, the center of the problem is the torturing. Get at that because labeling after the act has already been done is pointless. Keep religion out of politics AND food. Or at least do not allow people to sell kosher products.

Also, notifying consumers that a particular animal was tortured before being brought to the store would bring a whole new world of tactics for food corporations, don't you think? This is not like a restaurant detailing the calories counts of their food. This would be a new way to psychologically affect costumers using negative, fear monger advertising. So instead of "fat free", "organic,", you'd have "not tortured" or something like that.

A more important matter would be to make it mandatory that all GMO food be labeled!!!!

It's impossible to ban Hallal or kosher meat because the market for it is huge in Europe.Even animal rights organistations have given up.In UK majority of the supermarkets are owned by jews and majority of the food outlets like takeaways and restaurants are owned by muslims.Both work hand in hand to meet their own needs.

I'm certainly not going to pray to any "god" that requires my food be tortured before killing.

I've seen the videos of cattle prepared in the kosher method and it is sickening; if you're going to slaughter an animal make it as quick and painless as possible, not some damned gory spectacle of superstition and an animal in agony.

S&F

I am not the type of person who necessarily looks or cares about such labels, I care about the price and buy what's on sale . That being said, my grocery store has tons of items labeled either kosher or halal, those that do concern themselves with such labels know what religious rituals went into the slaughter, so what is wrong with this simple label? Why does it need a label to gross out all consumers?

Now if I put on my tin foil hat, I would suggest that it is another means by a group to rid the world of religious practices and ultimately religion. But who knows

Hold on, don't we also treat a large amount of our slaughterhouse animals in disgusting barbaric ways? Isn't this just a case of the pot calling the kettle black? What is it exactly that they do that is worse than us?

Originally posted by The Em barbarricpty Skies
Hold on, don't we also treat a large amount of our slaughterhouse animals in disgusting barbaric ways? Isn't this just a case of the pot calling the kettle black? What is it exactly that they do that is worse than us?

Exactly!

At the end of the day isn't killing an animal barbaric? So why does it matter whether you shoot it, electricute it or slaughter it with Gods name read on it?

This halal nonsense is ridiculous in the U.K.Places such as subway and most fast food joints now sell only halal,personly surely I should have a choice to eat or not halal/kosher meat?Mcdonalds is about the only place that doesn't sell it-that's why I eat there only.Usually the E.U. makes silly annoying rules but this one I'm all for,not only do we pander to these people,we now have to eat like them.Another example of muslims and jews forcing their customs on us.They know that in for example Britain that we bend over and take it up the ass from them because everyone is afraid to disagree with them incase they cry discrimination.Well I for one am sick of us Brits discriminating against ourselves.I an not afraid of being branded a racist,I am infact quite proud to be a racist if that's what you want to call me but bottom line,if they aren't happy here go back to your homeland.If all these muslims and jews had stayed in there own countries and tried to changes things there perhaps it would have evolved from the dark ages and might be a nicer and safer place now.

Originally posted by forklift
At the end of the day isn't killing an animal barbaric? So why does it matter whether you shoot it, electricute it or slaughter it with Gods name read on it?

If you give someone the death penalty let him die fast
Don't torture him first

Originally posted by glen200376
I an not afraid of being branded a racist,I am infact quite proud to be a racist if that's what you want to call me but bottom line,

If you are not a racist there's no reason to be proud to be called one

Originally posted by Ilovecatbinlady
If you don't like halal meat or kosher food, please don't buy it and move a long.

It's not that easy, sometimes there's no labelling
Also one poster highlighted the issue of availability of non-halal food as well

Originally posted by searching4truth
I am not the type of person who necessarily looks or cares about such labels, I care about the price and buy what's on sale . That being said, my grocery store has tons of items labeled either kosher or halal, those that do concern themselves with such labels know what religious rituals went into the slaughter, so what is wrong with this simple label? Why does it need a label to gross out all consumers?

Now if I put on my tin foil hat, I would suggest that it is another means by a group to rid the world of religious practices and ultimately religion. But who knows

I don't think that you got the point-the muslims and jews don't want a label,they want everyone to eat it,like it or lump it.Funny when for the last 20 years they have forced us to label food kosher/halal!

It isn't such a surprise that this has happened or has been proposed. The fact is, humans require food to sustain their very existence.

Lets face it only 10 years ago such a topic was a lmao topic. I guess its now evident how confused and how well the confusion has been introduced into the main stream and obviously upon people regardless of their religious beliefs. If you or who ever is wondering as to why i posted this, well its very obvious. Introduce religion into any topic and your sure to hit a home run. ( Humans are so predictable )

That is correct, consume your daily, minutes, thoughts, with topics that have no bearing on reality but rather to satisfy those who have a twisted approach to the human evolution.

Divide and Conquer

Originally posted by tristar
That is correct, consume your daily, minutes, thoughts, with topics that have no bearing on reality but rather to satisfy those who have a twisted approach to the human evolution.

“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.. I hold that, the more helpless a creature, the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of man"
-- Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)