Understand this John.
Slitting an animals throat to let the blood drain from its body whether its been stunned or not under some fucking sick religious belief should not be tolerated in this country or any country.
Why do you feel that this is so different to how non-kosher/non-halal meat is killed?
Saying a prayer then killing an animal by slitting its throat is only slightly different to:
* not saying a prayer then killing an animal by slitting its throat...
* not saying a prayer, firing a bolt into its brain... and then slitting its throat
* not saying a prayer, shooting it with massive amounts of electricity to induce a heart attack... and then slitting its throat.
All of which are standard slaughter techniques in the UK and elsewhere. You however seem to believe these are radically different and in some way more "moral" and less "barbaric".
I've lived in Muslim countries. I saw streets run red with blood on Eid al-Adha as animals were sacrificed, and I was shocked. I didn't want to see it. I didn't want to be there. You however will never see it, you will never experience it, because you live in the UK, and it does not happen here and it never will.
What does happen here, however, is slaughter on an industrial scale committed with cold, slick efficiency and, in many cases, cruelty. You will never see that either, because it is all hidden away in huge factories, where conveyer belts of animals are sent speeding to their doom, where herds are forced towards the butchering pen knowing exactly what is happening up ahead, where conscious animals take several minutes to die even after their "humane" coup de grace, and where the inedible scraps and scrapings are turned into burgers and chicken nuggets for our kids, and where meat from knackered horses is slipped into our food chain to boost profits.
If you ever had the misfortune, as I have, to report on the horror that was the rendering factory in Skellingthorpe, with its uncovered dumpsters full of animal parts swarming with flies, with its pools of congealed blood and fat and a sticky stench of death that lingered so heavily that you had to throw your clothes away, or work in a factory in Scunthorpe where chickens missed by the stun bath would watch and wait helplessly as men with blades slit and chopped at the necks of the several dozen birds in front of them, you would perhaps wonder if we were any better than the "fucking sick religious" people you despise so much.
That someone happens to say a prayer before such acts are committed is the last thing you should be worried about.
And a quick question - do you or have you ever said grace? If the answer is yes, you're basically the same as the people you clearly hate for their "fucking sick religious belief".
