What the article does not mention, or strongly emphasize are some important facts:
Kosher slaughter is considered by Jews to be cruelty free due to the means of slaughter, which ensures that the animal is killed with a single blade strike by an extremely trained expert
The blade used must be very large, and inspected daily for knicks and cuts. This ensures the animal dies quickly and without pain.
These "anti-cruelty" laws appear in European nations at the same time as rising antisemitism or "anti-immigrant" feelings around Muslims.
Very little care is given the means by which animals are made unconscious and how cruel that is, but ritual slaughter with high supervision and training is deemed "savage" by "enlightened" Christian.
'In other words, if it wasn't obvious, this isn't about animal cruelty at all, but about hate against Jews, and also Muslims, though Muslims have more flexibility in their meat production than Jews.
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