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Brussels - The European Jewish Congress, hailed a new European regulation on animal slaughter agreed on Monday by the European Union Council of Ministers.
The new regulation recognises the validity of ‘shechita’ or Jewish animal slaughter according to religious methods and requires that kosher meat can be traded and sold freely in every EU member state.
“The European Jewish Congress is delighted that the new EU regulation ensures that communities in member states that kill animals for food according to humane Jewish law will be able to continue doing so,’ Moshe Kantor, president of the European Jewish Congress (EJC) said.
He added: “This represents a victory for the Jewish community and religious minorities generally throughout the EU.” But he said that “we must remain vigilant to ensure that individual governments do not seek to impose new requirements on religious slaughter“.
"The regulation specifically makes provision for the killing of animals for food by religious communities to be exempted from the requirement for pre-stunning, and it contains no discriminatory labeling requirements for meat slaughtered using the shechita method nor for post-cut stunning to be enforced,” explained Aba Dunner, executive director of the Conference of European Rabbis.
“Furthermore, no member state will be able to prevent meat slaughtered according to the Jewish religious method being traded in its territory.”
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Jun 23, 2009 at 02:29 PM Liepa Says:
Baruch Hashem !!!!!
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Jun 23, 2009 at 02:50 PM achdus Says:
this shows when yidden are beachdus
anything is possible
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Jun 23, 2009 at 03:32 PM Anonymous Says:
we should feel "validated" that hilchos shechita have been reviewed and approved by these great human rights and animal rights mayvins.
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Jun 23, 2009 at 03:26 PM Avrohom Abba Says:
Excellent!
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Jun 23, 2009 at 03:21 PM Anonymous Says:
No this shows that if you work together, have respect, and do not throw rocks you have a better chance to succeed. I know here issssssssss the rock thrower.
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Jun 23, 2009 at 03:09 PM mottel Says:
B"h. Waiting for the next EU regulation; Due to the need for cows to exercise their tendons, any peta member found wandering near a shlachthoiz is to be bent over a hay bale and kicked in the backside by every cow on it's final journey. Earplugs should be inserted into the cows' ears to minimize their discomfort at hearing the shrieks of the peta members who are providing the said cows with the opportunity to exercise
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Jun 23, 2009 at 04:22 PM Anonymous Says:
"The regulation specifically makes provision for the killing of animals for food by designated experts from within religious communities to be exempted from the requirement for pre-stunning, and it contains no discriminatory labeling requirements for meat slaughtered using the shechita method nor for post-cut stunning to be enforced,”
What the article doesn't say is that for yiddin, the "designated experts" can only be chasideshe shochtim and preferably, Bobover from Monsey.
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Jun 23, 2009 at 05:12 PM chaim Says:
This is emportant! B'H
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Jun 23, 2009 at 04:52 PM Anonymous Says:
People - this is the side show. It's all about ensuring that Halal is allowed in the EU. It just so happens that shechita falls under the same set of rules. This has nothing to do with Achdus, or the love of yidden or 'Jew Power'. It's about making sure that the massive Halal market in Europe and the jobs it conmmands are kept safe
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Jun 23, 2009 at 07:32 PM Anonymous Says:
People for Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) aint gonna be happy
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Jun 23, 2009 at 09:51 PM Milhouse Says:
“ No this shows that if you work together, have respect, and do not throw rocks you have a better chance to succeed. I know here issssssssss the rock thrower. ”
Do you really think threats were not involved? Do you think the EU was not afraid of riots if it banned halal meat?
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Jun 25, 2009 at 08:19 AM me Says:
Think about what just happened. The EU has effectively stopped there hundreds year old campaign to assur schechitah. They do not deserve a thank you, nor any bit of appreciation just because they voted to stop being anti-semites.
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Jun 26, 2009 at 04:11 PM Milhouse Says:
“ Think about what just happened. The EU has effectively stopped there hundreds year old campaign to assur schechitah. They do not deserve a thank you, nor any bit of appreciation just because they voted to stop being anti-semites. ”
What " hundreds-year-old campaign"? The EU has not existed for hundreds of years, so how could it have one? And who exactly was trying to ban shechita 100 years ago? No, they do not deserve a thank-you, because they have not stopped being antisemites, and this vote had nothing to do with any desire to stop being antisemites.