UK to change law to ensure halal meat is not sold to unwilling customers | Irish Sun

UK to change law to ensure halal meat is not sold to unwilling customers

Irish Sun (ANI) Sunday 25th March, 2012

The United Kingdom is preparing to change the law to ensure that meat slaughtered in accordance with strict Islamic law cannot be sold to unwilling customers.

The UK Government is drawing up plans to prevent schools, hospitals, pubs and famous sporting venues from serving halal meat secretly to customers.

The move will be welcomed by animal rights campaigners, who argue that the traditional Islamic way of preparing meat, which involves killing animals by drawing a knife across their throats without stunning them first, is cruel and causes unnecessary pain.t follows a Mail on Sunday investigation in September 2010 which discovered that beef, chicken and lamb had been sold to fans at Wembley, without them being aware that it had been prepared in accordance with sharia law.

UK Environment Minister Lord Taylor has said that if the European Union fails to agree on a new food labelling scheme, the UK will take action.

"The Government welcomes this approach as it will allow consumer information to be considered alongside measures to minimise the suffering of animals slaughtered without stunning. In the meantime we are considering how we can use domestic legislation," The Daily Mail quoted Lord Taylor, as saying.

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