No shaw the thread was about halal meat. I believe you went out and bought yourself a soapbox to stand up on and pontificate about totally separate issue of annimal welfare, transportation, and conditions in abbatoirs.

I think I raised the larger and more important animal welfare issues before Steve did. So try pontificating at me.

Threads are about whatever their posters want them to be about. The pseudonymous thing that started this thread has a track record going back years of posting disgusting white supremacist little-Englander racism on this forum. So of course it wasn't concerned about animals when starting the thread: the whole point of it, for that vermin, was to abuse Muslims and motivate other people to discriminate against them and subject them to violent attacks. It's a dog-whistle issue which has been used by the fascist right in the UK to bully Jews and Muslims since before the rise of Hitler.

My intention in taking the thread in the direction I did was to say, fuck that, go to Stormfront if you want an audience for that crap - let's see what happens if we take your professions of concern for animals at face value. And the thing hasn't come back to comment in any way about the much more significant cruelty issues I've been talking about. It doesn't give a shit about the suffering of animals.