Animal Welfare: Methods of Slaughter

My Lords, in my 45 years as a veterinary surgeon I have witnessed the abattoir slaughter of many ...

My Lords, I declare my animal welfare interest as set out in the register, and I thank the noble ...

My Lords, I declare an interest. I am a meat-eater, and I am personally offended if expected to e...

My Lords, I wholeheartedly support the case made by the noble Lord, Lord Trees, and the evidence ...

My Lords, I declare an interest as I breed sheep. I have to admit that I try to shut out the fact...

My Lords, I speak as a Muslim who consumes halal meat regularly.

Islam forbids the mistreat...

My Lords, what other religion argues that its animals should not work on the Sabbath? And we do n...

My Lords, I do not disagree with the labelling of meat. Jews do it already for the kosher food tr...

My Lords, first I must confess that I am no expert, but I wanted to come to this debate partly to...

The Clock is not working.

So how long have I been speaking? Too long! How wonderful. I want to say one last thing, which is...

I declare an interest in that I was a member of the Farm Animal Welfare Council, although not at ...

I wish to dwell on the selectivity in the Question as regards “some” animals. Ethical, religious ...

Let me first declare an interest. I am an observant Jew who eats only kosher meat, meat that has ...

I remind the noble Lord that we are in a timed debate and he is already 50% over, if my maths is ...

I am so sorry, I will stop there. I have made my position clear.

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My Lords, I welcome this short debate and thank the noble Lord, Lord Trees, for initiating it, be...

I thank the noble Lord, Lord Trees, for introducing this debate today and declare my interest as ...

My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Trees, for securing a debate on this very important issue,...