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Very good news
After few months of intensive campaign (and a few more less intensive before) started by Viva! but joined and carried by many other organisations (including Gaja and Otoz Animals) we did it!
Any slaughter without stunning is forbidden in Poland!
We are amongst few countries in the EU to ban religious slaughter!
if it wasn’t for viva – it would not be possible BUT without those others organisations most likely neither.
http://www.france24.com/en/20130712-polish-parliament-rejects-ritual-animal-slaughter
Our Viva! Poland Manager, Czarak says: “We are overwhelmed with this victory, most of us still can’t believe it. I believed in it always but I’m an optimist and believe we can do anything .”
Fox news.com
Polish lawmakers reject reinstating religious slaughter of animals, Jews protest
Published July 12, 2013
Associated Press
WARSAW, Poland – Polish parliament’s lower house has voted to reject a government plan to reinstate the religious slaughter of animals.
Lawmakers rejected the divisive issue in a 222-178 vote Friday as 38 members of the ruling Civic Platform party joined the opposition to vote against it.
Until January, Poland was making good business exporting kosher and halal meat to Israel and Muslim countries, but religious slaughter was banned under pressure from animals’ rights groups, which say it causes unnecessary suffering because the livestock aren’t stunned before being killed.
The government argues the ban means a loss of money and 6,000 jobs at a time when around 13 per cent of Poles are unemployed.
The Conference of European Rabbis condemned the vote, calling it a sad day for Polish and European Jews.
Juliet Gellatley BSc, Dip CNM, Dip DM, FNTP, NTCC, CNHC
Founder & Director, Viva!
& Revive! Nutritional Therapist
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