Question 10971 — animals

Summary

Mrs. Emmanuelle Ménard draws the attention of the Minister of State, Minister of the Interior, to ritual slaughter. In France, 1.1 billion animals are slaughtered each year. Since 1964, the general rules of classic slaughter have required animals to be stunned in slaughterhouses before being bled, in order to limit animal suffering. An exception is however permitted. Indeed, the ritual slaughter of animals is organized in order to guarantee the free exercise of religious practices in compliance with regulatory provisions relating to animal protection, food hygiene and environmental protection. Ritual slaughter can only be carried out in a slaughterhouse with authorization to waive the stunning obligation. “The number of animals slaughtered according to a religious ritual far exceeds the domestic needs of minorities religious concerned” notes the European Commission responsible for investigating the subject. Likewise, in a November 2011 report, the General Council for Food, Agriculture and Rural Areas specifies that 51% of slaughters carried out in France are ritual slaughters, while Muslim and Jewish consumers do not represent more than 7% of French consumers. And like today in France, no labeling is compulsory, the French can, without wanting or even knowing it, contribute to the financing of this practice. During a ritual slaughter, the meat is obtained by deeply incising the animal's throat with a knife, until the jugular veins and carotids are severed, but the spinal cord must remain intact because convulsions are necessary to improve blood drainage. A cow can thus put up to 14 minutes to die, after having had her throat slit. And as this final phase extends beyond what is reasonable considering the pace of the slaughterhouse, she often ends up still alive, hanging from a hook where the cutting work begins. Denmark, Finland, Greece, Luxembourg, Sweden, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland and some Austrian states have already taken the decision to ban ritual slaughter. Even the Great mosque of Paris, through certain declarations of Mr. Dalil Boubakeur, and that of Évry-Courcouronnes believe that it is possible to obtain halal meat by stunning the animal by electronarcosis before bleeding. Finally, according to an IFOP survey in 2009, 72% of French people declared themselves hostile to ritual slaughter. She therefore questions him about the suffering inflicted needlessly on these sentient beings and asks him what measures he should take. intends to take action to limit it, then, if necessary, prohibit its use.

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