Differing approaches to stunning and slaughtering of livestock in some European jurisdictions may hinder halal meat production.
London/Brussels – European Union member states have had a freer hand to impose stunning requirements, including kosher as well as halal production since December 2020 because of a European Court of Justice (ECJ) decision. The court ruled that member states could mandate pre-slaughter non-lethal stunning despite the religious exemption to mandated stunning within September 2009 EU regulation on animal protection at the time of killing.
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