Animal Slaughter (Religious Methods)

That was exactly what we heard. The crux of the matter is that any stunning that takes place unde...

I declare an interest in the agri-food business. I have been listening carefully to the hon. Gent...

There is a balance to be struck. New Zealand exports a lot of meat to the middle east. It still d...

I add my congratulations on the way my hon. Friend chaired the work on this fairly balanced repor...

Yes. I am hoping that in a moment the Minister with responsibility for farming will give us more ...

I know that my hon. Friend works closely with the British Veterinary Association, for which I am ...

Yes; my hon. Friend, the Chair of the Select Committee on Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, ma...

I was very pleased by the all-party group’s conclusion that meat should be labelled as stunned or...

That is a good point. The labelling system is more difficult in the case of restaurant meat, proc...

Order. The debate runs till 11 o’clock and I want to call the Front-Bench spokesmen no later than...

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Hollobone. I congratulate the hon. Member f...

I thank the hon. Lady for her sensible and calm approach to this matter. One of our concerns when...

Some parts of animals are prohibited from being eaten by people who observe the laws of kashrut a...

I am grateful for the calm way we are debating this matter. We found from the evidence presented ...

I accept that further steps could be taken, but my essential concern is about a preserving the ri...

On 16 January, the other place debated religious slaughter, showing a high level of scientific, p...

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Hollobone. I congratulate the hon. Member f...

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Hollobone. Like others, I congratulate my h...

Can my hon. Friend confirm that the shochet holds two licences? One is issued by the Food Standar...

My hon. Friend is perfectly right: that is the case.

The chalaf is the surgically sharp ins...

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Hollobone, and to hear so many great speech...

I think that my hon. Friend is mixing his figures. I think that he is taking the 20,000 cattle in...

That helpfully illustrates my next point, and I am grateful to my hon. Friend for that. Statistic...

I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Tiverton and Honiton (Neil Parish) for the report and for s...

I agree with what the hon. Gentleman has just said. In that sense, would it not be more honest fo...

The hon. Gentleman makes a good point. The campaign against religious slaughter is remarkably nar...

I apologise for not having been present at the beginning of the debate. Along with the hon. Membe...

I thank all hon. Members who have spoken, particularly the hon. Member for Tiverton and Honiton (...

The shadow Minister is absolutely right. One of the problems with shechita is that the Jewish aut...

The hon. Gentleman makes a good point. That is why we need to work on both the religious and cult...

Will the hon. Gentleman say what a future Labour Government, if one should ever happen, will do? ...

If the hon. Gentleman will bear with me, I will fully lay out our position. I appreciate that he ...

The hon. Gentleman sets out clearly some alternative methods of stunning, but one hon. Member who...

The hon. Gentleman has corrected the record appropriately. I am not aware that clubbing is a legi...

If that was me, it was certainly not my intention, and I apologise for making that assertion. I h...

I thank the hon. Gentleman for clarifying that on record.

To return to the issue of labelli...

I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Tiverton and Honiton (Neil Parish) on securing this ...

I thank all Members who took part in that important debate. If they are not staying for the debat...