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is legal and regulated: the law requires pre-stunning for but provides a specific exemption for religious slaughter, and in practice most halal meat in the UK comes from animals that were stunned firs...
: law requires a traceability reference (a "kill" or plant/licence number) that can link meat back to the slaughterhouse or cutting plant, and public registers exist that map many of those codes to es...
Different official and media sources offer divergent estimates, but the best-supported figures show that ritual methods account for a substantial minority of slaughterings: tens of millions of animals...
Determining whether meat was ritually slaughtered in a abattoir cannot be done reliably by sight or taste; it requires checking documentation, labelling and the abattoir’s practices because religious ...
Major UK supermarkets verify through a combination of supplier sourcing policies, reliance on recognised (HCBs), company or third‑party audits of abattoirs, and statutory checks such as the ’s Demonst...
do not operate under a legal duty to label meat as “stunned” or “non‑stunned”; instead they typically rely on a mix of regulatory approval, third‑party , supplier‑level sourcing policies and voluntary...
A or plant licence number on meat packaging is a traceability code linking a cut of meat back to the slaughterhouse, cutting plant or the animal or group of animals from which it was derived . Consume...
Three clear supermarket rollouts are documented: ’ mycoprotein “” salmon appeared in outlets (including ) and select n retailers and direct‑to‑consumer channels , while Spanish startup placed plant‑ba...
Scientific testing has validated both causes and safety concerns for different kinds of “blue honey” but the record is mixed: researchers have documented naturally occurring blue or blue‑green honeys ...