Poland to Defy European Union Ban, and Will Permit Ritual Slaughter

THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
By Marynia Kruk

POLAND---Poland wants to re-legalize ritual slaughter, but with limits on what the country’s prime minister called the cruelest practices, after a legal challenge to the procedure to produce kosher and halal meat last year pitted the country’s powerful agriculture export industry against animal rights activists. “For Jews, moves against shechita [Jewish ritual slaughter] even subconsciously raise resistance,” said Chief Rabbi of Poland Michael Schudrich. “But as far as I can see this has nothing to do with the pre-war experience. It impacts on Jewish life, but it’s not about Jews.” At present, the niche industry remains in legal limbo after a Constitutional Tribunal ruling last November. [link]

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