For decades scientific
research has existed, which shows indisputably that animals suffer severe
pain and stress during ritual slaughter without stunning. The Federation of
Veterinarians of Europe (FVE) also rejects slaughter without stunning on
these grounds:
http://www.fve.org/news/publications/pdf/2010_poster_ritual_slaughter.pdf
In various countries like Sweden, Norway, Estonia, Iceland and
Switzerland religious slaughter without stunning has been banned.
At
this crucial point in time, I would like to urge animal protection
organizations to actively take part in the public discussion about religious
slaughter without stunning. One of the ways in which you could contribute,
is to place the NGPF's short documentary on your website (to be embedded via