UK: Faith groups criticise campaign
MUSLIM and Jewish communities in Scotland have hit out at a campaign set up by vets which calls for all animals to be stunned before slaughter to avert suffering.
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However, an exemption in UK law allows animals to be slaughtered without stunning for certain religious communities.
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The e-petition is one of the fastest growing petitions on the HM Government website and reached 50,000 signatures in just two weeks.
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He called on Muslims and Jews to allow the livestock to be stunned unconscious before they are killed, or introduce labeling of non stun.
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