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The practice of halal slaughter in the UK, including its legality, regulation, and the debate surrounding animal welfare and religious freedom.
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...
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...
Different halal certification bodies split principally between permitting reversible (recoverable) pre‑stunning under strict conditions and forbidding any pre‑stun at all, and they enforce those posit...