CHICKENS FACE PAINFUL DEATH AFTER SLAUGHTER RULES CHANGE

Millions of chickens will suffer painful deaths because UK ministers want to protect “religious freedoms” for Muslims and Jews.

The UK government is refusing to introduce a more reliable method of stunning the animals before they are killed, according to vets. Rules coming into force in England tomorrow could result in birds remaining conscious and able to feel pain after being dipped in an electrical water bath.

Research by the European Food Safety Authority has suggested that the combination of electric frequency and current used by some halal abattoirs may only immobilise some birds, meaning that they continue to feel pain as their throats are cut and until they die.

Halal producers fear that European Union rules on stunning could result in some chickens dying before their throats are cut, meaning that the meat could not be defined as halal. Animals have to be capable of recovering from the stun in order for stunning to be consistent with halal principles.

Most animals killed by halal abattoirs are stunned but there is debate among Muslims over whether stunning should be permitted!!!

Why is this utterly barbaric practice of suffering allowed to take place?

What have poor chickens done to hurt anyone? Why should these poor defenseless animals suffer the terrible misery of being slaughtered often in the most barbaric and painful way to appease barbaric religious views?

With respect to Muslims and Jews we are now living in the 21^st Century and yet this appalling slaughter causing unbelievable suffering is allowed to continue in the name of what - GOD?

Can't the human race realise that killing any living creature is a terrible crime? In response to my own question: obviously not!!! - The human race butchers hundreds of millions of animals of all shapes and sizes and of fish and other creatures in the oceans every year - and wars claim millions of human lives too! Aren't we clever?

If this level of suffering continues then I can only despair of the future of the human race and this wonderful planet we call our home.

If you can kill animals so cruelly and thoughtlessly it is no wonder that human life is thought of so cheaply. - is there no respect for life whatsoever? 

I am not suggesting that the whole world immediately turns vegetarian although it would be amazingly wonderful if it did - of course that will never happen - but we can cut back on the relentless and indiscriminate killing that goes on day in and day out. Oceans that are vacuumed of all life - animals killed for a myriad of reasons not just for food - forests and natural habitats destroyed for monetary gain causing so many species to be literally wiped out - goodness knows how much food is wasted and ending up on the rubbish and waste dumps? How long can this be allowed continue?

If we (and by "we" I mean the human race) don't get a grip on the misery and suffering we are causing in all corners of the globe there won't be a human race left! OK you probably think I am completely going over the top with this statement and that I'm talking nonsense - well think about it before you get on your high horse?

There is an answer to all of this - its called RESPECT FOR ALL LIFE

If we don't start to respect and love this Earth we live on and the incredible plants, trees, flowers, fauna and foods the earth provides us with - respect all peoples - we are all the same - we have to get rid of all the hatred - greed - ignorance - jealousy - anger - the attitude of I am right and everyone else is wrong - my religion is better than yours - animals are only there to be killed and eaten - that we can destroy forests for economic/money reasons - the list is endless - in other words WAKE UP

If you don't start to develop respect for all life - develop your compassion and caring for all living creatures and for this wonderful Earth we live on - we may find humans as a species won't be here one day!!

THINK ABOUT IT - AND ACT NOW