Wait a minute…. They named a sub reddit like that….. And it’s a politics sub?
What’s actually happening is that the court mandated stunning the animal before slaughter, removing an exception that existed specifically for Kosher and Halal.
when it comes to greece, eu ignores all human right violations… typical hypocrisy of the west.
The European Union has animal slaughter regulations, which require stunning the animal to instantly make it unconscious. Exemptions are made for kosher and halal at the European level. However, the European Court of Justice has ruled that member-states and regions have wide discretion on legislating kosher/halal methods. In a few EU countries, there is a requirement that the animal be stunned before ritual slaughter; *some* Muslim and Jewish groups oppose this. Greece had the exemption for halal/kosher, however this recent court ruling scraps the exemption and requires halal/kosher to comply with the stunning regulation. [Greece joins Sweden, Denmark, and Belgium (except Brussels region) in being the 4th member-state to require stunning before cutting](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_aspects_of_ritual_slaughter#EU_member_state_laws). (One other member state, Slovenia, has banned halal/kosher cutting outright). Other countries and territories outside the EU, namely Australia, Iceland, New Zealand, Norway, Switzerland, and Greenland, also have this requirement.
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Wait a minute…. They named a sub reddit like that….. And it’s a politics sub?
What’s actually happening is that the court mandated stunning the animal before slaughter, removing an exception that existed specifically for Kosher and Halal.
when it comes to greece, eu ignores all human right violations… typical hypocrisy of the west.
[This was discussed last week](https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/qhdidl/greeces_top_court_rules_against_ritual_slaughter/). It’s a bit of a clickbait title. The court ruled that halal and kosher slaughter must comply with regulation (stunning the animal first so that it’s not conscious), and the exemption made for halal/kosher is unlawful.
Paraphrasing what I wrote this last week:
The European Union has animal slaughter regulations, which require stunning the animal to instantly make it unconscious. Exemptions are made for kosher and halal at the European level. However, the European Court of Justice has ruled that member-states and regions have wide discretion on legislating kosher/halal methods. In a few EU countries, there is a requirement that the animal be stunned before ritual slaughter; *some* Muslim and Jewish groups oppose this. Greece had the exemption for halal/kosher, however this recent court ruling scraps the exemption and requires halal/kosher to comply with the stunning regulation. [Greece joins Sweden, Denmark, and Belgium (except Brussels region) in being the 4th member-state to require stunning before cutting](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_aspects_of_ritual_slaughter#EU_member_state_laws). (One other member state, Slovenia, has banned halal/kosher cutting outright). Other countries and territories outside the EU, namely Australia, Iceland, New Zealand, Norway, Switzerland, and Greenland, also have this requirement.