Halal and Kosher Meat

some people have read my comments on the way we are going to have to borrow money from Saudi Arabia and China and even the Daily Politics made reference to my 'he who pays the piper calls the tune', without credit I will have you know. I don't know.

In the meantime you also printed my ctiticism of the treatment of birds in France, the blinding birds prior to stuffing.

May I add another issue with regard to the treatment of animals under welfare rules. And it goes to one of my core problems, why does this shameful government not ban Halal and Kosher meat. I regard the slaughter of animals under that process to be totally unacceptable. They have banned the hunting of foxes with hounds, well I demand that they also ban, with immediate effect Halal and Kosher methods of slaughter.

Or is this shameful government not going to ban these practices because they may lose votes with certain groups, or that some religious groups may be upset. well I am sorry but the government s failing in so many ways, yet they ban the hunting of foxes with hounds. Who was responsible for excluding Halal and Kosher methods of killing from animal welfare legislation.