{"id":42954,"date":"2014-03-08T00:46:32","date_gmt":"2014-03-08T00:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/london_times_stop_ritual_slaughter_of_animals_says_top_vet\/"},"modified":"2014-03-08T00:46:32","modified_gmt":"2014-03-08T00:46:32","slug":"london_times_stop_ritual_slaughter_of_animals_says_top_vet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=42954","title":{"rendered":"([London] Times) Stop ritual slaughter of animals, says top vet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The religious slaughter of animals should be banned if Muslims and Jews refuse to adopt more humane methods of killing, the new leader of Britain\u2019s vets has said.<\/p>\n<p>John Blackwell, president-elect of the British Veterinary Association, said that the traditional practice of slitting animals\u2019 throats and allowing them to bleed to death for halal and kosher meat caused unnecessary suffering.<\/p>\n<p>He urged Jews and Muslims to allow poultry, sheep and cattle to be stunned unconscious before they are killed. If the two faiths refuse, Mr Blackwell wants ministers to consider following the example of Denmark by banning the slaughter of animals that are not stunned first.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/tto\/life\/food\/article4024573.ece\">Read it all<\/a> (subscription required).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The religious slaughter of animals should be banned if Muslims and Jews refuse to adopt more humane methods of killing, the new leader of Britain\u2019s vets has said. John Blackwell, president-elect of the British Veterinary Association, said that the traditional<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=42954\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,49,50,42,189,199,168,426,429,155,108,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-general-interest","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-animals","category-england-uk","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-islam","category-judaism","category-other-faiths","category-religion-culture","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42954\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}