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Article: Activists Seek to Ban Kosher Slaughter: European Jews Fight to
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- January 21, 1994
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Seth Lipsky
Forward
01-21-1994
Activists Seek to Ban Kosher Slaughter: European Jews Fight to Preserve. Traditional Methods of Butchering
NEW YORK -- The fight by Europe's butchers for the right to continue producing kosher meat will move to local legislatures after the European Union passed a controversial animal-rights bill with a special clause for kosher slaughtering earlier this month.
In its original form, the bill would have forced meat manufacturers to stun animals before killing them, an act animal-rights activists claim is necessary for humane reasons but which religious leaders say goes against halacha, or Jewish law. In a bow to kosher slaughterers, the pan-European organization ...