date:Jun 09, 2012
d of last month, the government faced renewed pressure to outlaw the slaughter of animals that have not been made unconscious.
Current rules order that stock must be stunned before slaughter by electrocution, gassing, or shooting retractable rods into their brains. But there are exemptions for animals to be killed without stunning, according to Muslim and Jewish traditions.
In a debate in the House of Commons on Thursday May 24, Conservative backbencher Greg Knight has told MPs that such exem