questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what consideration her Department has given to banning non-stun slaughter of animals.
answerText: Regulations require that animals must be stunned prior to slaughter so that they are unconscious and insensible to pain, and the only exception is where animals are slaughtered in accordance with religious rites. The Government would prefer all animals to...
heading: Slaughterhouses: Animal Welfare