A CRUEL ritual, said to date back some 800 years, involves ultra-Orthodox Jews swinging chickens above their heads to absolve them from their sins. The ghastly spectacle takes place to mark Yom Kippur – the Day of Atonement – and the birds are slaughtered afterwards. But now some concerned rabbis, according to this report, are [...]
THE Dutch Parliament yesterday voted to ban ritual slaughter – and immediately incurred the wrath of observant Jews and Muslims. The new ban requires livestock to be stunned before being killed, contrary to the Muslim and Jewish ritual slaughter customs that require animals to be fully conscious. Binyomin Jacobs, the country’s Chief Rabbi, compared the [...]
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JEWISH and Muslim groups in Holland have kicked off over plans proposed to stun animals before they are ritually slaughtered. Chief Rabbi Binyomin Jacobs said: If we no longer have people who can do ritual slaughter in the Netherlands, we will stop eating meat. And Yusuf Altuntas, President of the CMO – an organisation that [...]
I ADORE cooking Indian dishes. When I was still living in the UK my provisions cupboards were fully stocked with items readily available from a variety of stores stocking the herbs, spices and pastes needed to create great curries and other Asian recipes. But here on the Costa Blanca in Spain I have been unable [...]
THE world’s goriest mass killing of animals has just taken place in Nepal to honour the Hindu Goddess of Power, Durga. Thousands of animals, according to this report, died in a horrible manner during Friday and Saturday as the Nepalese celebrated the festival of Dashain, amidst protests from animal rights activists. The animals are herded [...]
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BRITAIN second largest fast food chain hoped to woo the Islamic market by opening 86 trial outlets selling halal-only meat – but it turns out that that the chicken they’re selling isn’t quite halal enough, and the Magic Carpet folk are giving it the bird. KFC, according to the News of the World, has also [...]
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The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
