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EU court rules authorities can ban kosher and halal slaughter in Belgian region

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European Jewish groups decry ruling, say it puts 'animal welfare above... freedom of religion'; Israel: Decision signals to Jewish communities that they aren’t wanted in EuropeIn any humane society, animal welfare comes before religeon. To cause such terrible fear and suffering in animals is completely unacceptable. The European Court of Justice ruled Thursday that authorities can order that animals be stunned before slaughter in a case that Jewish and Muslim groups warned could curb religious freedom.The court backed a regulation imposed in the Flemish region of Belgium to ban the slaughter of livestock that have not been stunned, on animal rights grounds The court concludes that the measures contained in the decree allow a fair balance to be struck between the importance attached to

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 European Jewish groups decry ruling, say it puts 'animal welfare above... freedom of religion'; Israel: Decision signals to Jewish communities that they aren’t wanted in Europe


In any humane society, animal welfare comes before religeon. To cause such terrible fear and suffering in animals is completely unacceptable. 

The European Court of Justice ruled Thursday that authorities can order that animals be stunned before slaughter in a case that Jewish and Muslim groups warned could curb religious freedom.

The court backed a regulation imposed in the Flemish region of Belgium to ban the slaughter of livestock that have not been stunned, on animal rights grounds

 The court concludes that the measures contained in the decree allow a fair balance to be struck between the importance attached to animal welfare and the freedom of Jewish and Muslim believers to manifest their religion,” the ruling said

Times of Israel. 


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