ban on kosher and halal slaughter has come into effect in the Flanders region of Belg

I wouldn't say it's an attack on religion, but most certainly it is preventing Muslims and Jews from practicing their religion. They will have to buy their meat abroad, which in some extreme cases, could lead to severe food shortages.

I think this is one of the instances where the law of the country should not be prioritised over religion.

Wouldn’t make more sense to ban non-stunned meat

You're right. Although some Jews believe meat shouldn't be stunned as animal intended for food must be healthy and uninjured at the time of shechita. Stunning methods injure the animal, making it treifa (non-kosher and thus prohibited). If the stunning kills the animal it makes it neveila (an animal which has not been shechted) and is forbidden as food for Jews. I think it's the same in Islam, although most halal meat in the UK is pre-stunned anyway. 🤷*♀️

People nowadays love the word “feelings”. It’s not about feelings, it’s literally about whether or not they can practice their religion.

The taliban think they are practicing their religion, it doesn’t mean we should allow it. The same goes for the inhumane slaughter of animals, just because it offends someone’s religious feelings, does not mean it should be allowed. Sure, pray 5 times a day, cut your sons foreskin off - but don’t subject animals to incredible amounts of pain in the name of a nonexistent God

I wouldn't say animal cruelty is a human right.

You’re wrong. Treatment of animals > religious feelings

There’s a difference between the Taliban killing people for the sake of it, and normal people killing animals for food. If we’re taking about ‘feelings’, why should Jewish people care that the way they kill animals offends other people? Animals go through an immense amount of pain regardless. When you go to a restaurant, or takeaway, do you know exactly how the animal has been killed? Do you ask the person selling it to you how the animal was treated?

This isn't just 'religious feelings' anymore, they are now preventing people from practicing their religion. If animal treatment was so prioritised, why hasn't all meat slaughter been banned? Wouldn't you say it's inhumane to rear animals just to kill them for food?

Breeding and raising animals for slaughter, and feeding them thousands of tonnes of fodder grown on land that could grow food for humans, is not ''basic survival''. Quite apart from being a morally bankrupt system, it's inefficient and wasteful. It's not even a staple - grains and rices and potatoes are staples. There's a reason that subsistence farmers barely get by on a diet of 90% rice. If producing meat was more efficient than producing vegetables, as you claim, then they'd be eating mostly meat. Instead, it's the richest regions of the world that eat the most meat. Meat is a luxury.

banning relgious slaughtering methods is a fine logical position to hold.. as long as you also ban factory farming.

You can take the position of an 'ethical' meat eater - who eats only animals who have had good lives, and been killed in the most humane way possible... its a reasonable position.

But if your going to tesco and buying factory farmed meat on the cheap, whilst saying how bad halal meat is - then really its just about wanting to stop islamic practises coming, and not about any moral regard for animal welfare..

(Which is actually fine as well - but be honest, that its about wanting to go against multiculturalism, and islamification - and don't pretend its about animal welfare)

Then that would mean all meat eaters are hypocrites?

Grains, rices & potatoes aren't staples, since none of those were available to our ancestors. Whether you like it or not, animal protein is a staple. It's why the brain's 'big bang' happened. It's literally the reason for our intelligence. We're omnivores, you're never going to stop humans from being omnivores not without genetic engineering, and who knows what detrimental effect that will have on us as a species.

I workout everyday. On top of that I cycle everywhere. Try cycling 10 miles to the gym, lift weights for an hour, then cycle 10 miles back every single day like I do on some vegan soyboy diet. I'd collapse and die! I eat steak for breakfast, I eat it for dinner, I eat it for supper. I need meat several times a day. Without it I wouldn't grow and I certainly wouldn't have any energy or the nutrients needed to keep going.

This evil agenda to turn us all into effeminate vegan soyboys with girly arms isn't for me thanks you can keep it.

I've already stated though, I'm against intensive/factory farming, and believe in stun before harvest without any excuses religious or otherwise.

You have a choice, just buy grass-fed pastured like I do.

For goodness' sake, educate yourself...

We have a need for protein, sure. There are plenty of sources of vegetable protein, such as beans, soy, fungus protein like Quorn, and others. It's slightly more work, but completely replaceable. If you need concentrated protein, vegetable protein powder is easy to find and there are plenty of vegan bodybuilding YouTube channels for your perusal.

How can you be so paranoid as to think we want to turn you into an effeminate girly-armed weakling? What would I, or vegans, or any particular industry have to gain from doing that?