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Pre-Stunning Of Animals For Slaughter

EDM number 510 in 2008-09, proposed by David Taylor on 20/01/2009.
Categorised under the topic of Animal welfare.

That this House recalls the Farm Animal Welfare Council's recommendation in 2003 which called for the repeal of the exemption from stunning prior to slaughter for animals killed by Moslem Halal and Jewish Shechita methods; notes that these exemptions remain; further recalls the Council's scientific evidence showing that sheep become insensible within five to seven seconds of the incision whilst adult cattle may take between 22 and 40 seconds, and calves may take up to two minutes to become insensible; abhors all forms of racism and religious intolerance; proposes that the stunning of an animal post-cut addresses animal welfare concerns whilst remaining compliant with the theological tenets upon which halal and kosher are based; supports the existing use of pre-stunning in the slaugher of over 90 per cent. of animals killed in the UK for halal meat; observes that bans on slaughter without pre-stunning in Norway, Sweden and New Zealand have been in place for over five years without harming religious freedom or community relations in those countries; and calls on the Government to work actively and constructively in co-operation with the Muslim and Jewish communities in the UK to address the animal welfare implications of all religious slaughter and to amend the Welfare of Animals (Slaughter or Killing) Regulations 1995 accordingly.

This motion has been signed by a total of 44 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
David Taylor20/01/2009North West LeicestershireLabourProposed
Colin Challen20/01/2009Morley and RothwellLabourSeconded
David Drew20/01/2009StroudLabourSeconded
Mike Hancock21/01/2009Portsmouth SouthLiberal DemocratSeconded
Laura Moffatt21/01/2009CrawleyLabourSeconded
Alan Simpson21/01/2009Nottingham SouthLabourSeconded
Paul Holmes21/01/2009ChesterfieldLiberal DemocratSigned
Edward O'Hara21/01/2009Knowsley SouthLabourSigned
Evan Harris22/01/2009Oxford West and AbingdonLiberal DemocratSigned
Martin Caton22/01/2009GowerLabourSigned
Hywel Francis22/01/2009AberavonLabourSigned
Rudi Vis22/01/2009Finchley and Golders GreenLabourSigned
Adrian Sanders26/01/2009TorbayLiberal DemocratSigned
Bill Etherington26/01/2009Sunderland NorthLabourSigned
Ann Cryer26/01/2009KeighleyLabourSigned
Bob Russell27/01/2009ColchesterLiberal DemocratSigned
John Leech28/01/2009Manchester, WithingtonLiberal DemocratSigned
Sandra Gidley02/02/2009RomseyLiberal DemocratSigned
Desmond Turner02/02/2009Brighton, KemptownLabourSigned
Colin Breed03/02/2009South East CornwallLiberal DemocratSigned
Norman Baker03/02/2009LewesLiberal DemocratSigned
Julie Morgan04/02/2009Cardiff NorthLabourSigned
Steve Webb05/02/2009NorthavonLiberal DemocratSigned
Roger Godsiff09/02/2009Birmingham, Sparkbrook and Small HeathLabourSigned
John Austin09/02/2009Erith and ThamesmeadLabourSigned
Elfyn Llwyd09/02/2009Meirionnydd Nant ConwyPlaid CymruSigned
Paul Farrelly10/02/2009Newcastle-under-LymeLabourSigned
Ann Widdecombe10/02/2009Maidstone and The WealdConservativeSigned
David Hamilton11/02/2009MidlothianLabourSigned
Eric Illsley23/02/2009Barnsley CentralLabourSigned
Martin Horwood23/02/2009CheltenhamLiberal DemocratSigned
Kelvin Hopkins24/02/2009Luton NorthLabourSigned
David Howarth24/02/2009CambridgeLiberal DemocratSigned
Jim Dowd26/02/2009Lewisham WestLabourSigned
Emily Thornberry03/03/2009Islington South and FinsburyLabourSigned
Andy Reed05/03/2009LoughboroughLabourSigned
Nick Harvey23/03/2009North DevonLiberal DemocratSigned
Ian Cawsey01/04/2009Brigg and GooleLabourSigned
Diane Abbott23/04/2009Hackney North and Stoke NewingtonLabourSigned
Kim Howells05/05/2009PontypriddLabourSigned
Chris McCafferty04/06/2009Calder ValleyLabourSigned
George Howarth06/07/2009Knowsley North and Sefton EastLabourSigned
Jeremy Browne12/10/2009TauntonLiberal DemocratSigned
Janet Anderson26/10/2009Rossendale and DarwenLabourSigned

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