"Any meat offered for human consumption where the annimal has not been stunned prior to slaughter should be clearly labelled as such in my view." Should it really now. And should your next pack of shrink-wrapped shoulder of lamb also tell you that this animal was transported hundreds of miles in a double-decker lorry to the slaughterhouse, packed in with hundreds of other terrified lambs like sardines, or that the cow that this beef came from was herded into a noisy abattoir running with blood and full of the tormented cries of other animals also in line to be slaughtered, or that this pack of chicken fillets came from a bird that was kept in a dark barn with tens of thousands of other birds for the whole of its life, forced to trample on the corpses of dead birds that had to be cleaned out every day, or that this this pork chop came from a pig that was never allowed outdoors but kept in draughty, overcrowded concrete Belsen-houses living in its own shit and the shit of hundreds of other pigs? Let me be the first to suggest a whiff of hypocrisy running through this thread, and, not least, a whiff of anti-Muslim sentiment...
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