questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment her Department has made of the adequacy of (a) food safety and (b) animal welfare standards in (i) halal and (ii) kosher slaughterhouses.
answerText: No specific food safety or animal welfare assessments have been made of slaughterhouses using halal or kosher slaughter methods. Animal welfare at time of killing legislation sets out the main requirements to protect the welfare of animals when being slau...
heading: Meat: Ritual Slaughter