"A Mail on Sunday investigation – which will alarm anyone concerned about animal cruelty – has revealed that schools, hospitals, pubs and famous sporting venues such as Ascot and Twickenham are controversially serving up meat slaughtered in accordance with strict Islamic law to unwitting members of the public. All the beef, chicken and lamb sold to fans at Wembley has secretly been prepared in accordance with sharia law, while Cheltenham College, which boasts of its ‘strong Christian ethos’, is one of several top public schools which also serves halal chicken to pupils without informing them."Knocking animals out with a bolt gun, the usual action in British slaughterhouses, is expressly forbidden by sharia law. Instead, according to dhabiha, the prescribed method of Muslim ritual slaughter, animals must be sentient when their throats are cut; with the blood allowed to gush and drip out leaving negligible amounts of blood remaining in the body.
Similarities to Jewish dietary laws are likely, but only briefly noted.
Animal rights groups are decidedly beside themselves and their animal friends and see now as the right time to strike.
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