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ILLUSTRATION - A golden bowl depicting Io - mistress of Zeus - turned into a cow.

The European Parliament Animal Intergroup started the year facing the gloomy facts and figures of ritual slaughter lucrative business rapidly expanding in the East Europe.

The debate with experts on the issue shows that the odious practices move from old EU members to new-comers. The situation in the Polish agricultural sector causes serious concerns.
Officially two major pieces of legislation: the Council Directives of 2008 and 2009 focusing on minimum requirements for procedures of cattle and pigs culling and the manipulations at the very moments of killings were respected.
‘Polish farmers have were given time to adjust to the new rules. All slaughter houses are supervised by the vets, the castration of male piglets is done by professionals’, - according to Anna Kowalska-Klockiewicz, first secretary of agriculture in Polish representation to the EU.
As a result 98% of farms implemented the requirements and successfully comply with the European standards.
On contrary to official data, Prof. Elzanowski revealed grim realities of cattle and pig production in Poland: ‘The conditions for animals are meeting the minimum requirements only in best cases, while government tries to present this minimum as a standard. The sector has to do the proper work in translating and understanding the objective and full information about the European norms’.
‘The ritual slaughter is a peace work, but the veterinary exceptions are paid effectively by the ‘peace rate’, which clams down the situation beyond imaginary’, - continues Prof. Elzanowsky.
Within the general poor conditions for animals far beyond the expected EU standards the ritual slaughter is especially loathsome practise. The major deviation from the EU standard procedure is in absence of stunning, that makes it repellent.
‘A great deal of horrendous manipulations are happening during these abhorrent rituals’, - continues professor Elzanowski, referring to multiple veterinary reports and evidences about animal agonies, while bleeding with the cut throat.

 

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ILLUSTRATION - In many ancient cultures cattle was worshiped

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‘Ritual procedure is absolutely barbaric and in no way coming even close to contemporary ideas of the overwhelming majority of the EU citizens about the way animals grown for consumption should be treated in civilised society at culling’, - said Prof. Elzanowski. Apparently according to scientific evidence the stunning doesn’t affect bleeding, making the torture causing immense sufferings of multitudes of animals absolutely unjustified, based on sheer superstition.

The general public in Poland and the EU has no idea of what happens during ritual slaughter of cows, claims Elzanowksi. ‘Slicing throats and turning cows in rotary pens to let them bleed goes far beyond any nightmare of a regular EU citizen. For its repulsive nature the ritual slaughter in Poland takes place in greatest discretion out of public eye, being illegal before 2004, but expanding rapidly with full complaisance of veterinary authorities for financial benefits it brings.
At present in Poland there are already about 100 halal ritual slaughter houses and two kosher ones, - all making handsome profits out of hundreds of thousands of ritually killed animals, reportedly by conservative estimation of more than 300 000 per year.
In spite of a generally secretive character of this repulsive practises made in a name of religion, sometimes the information leaks.
On average hundred cows are killed in rituals daily in Leszno, and then transported to Gostyn, where rabbis examine the carcasses selecting about 20. The rejected 80 enter the regular food chain, stamped and sold to general public.
The animal torture is not limited to ritual slaughter: over 100 000 un-weaned calves are travelling from Poland for more than 25 hours to Italy and Spain. Nobody stops for picnic on the way.
Finally those animals can’t be sold through to established food chain are taken to the ‘black market’, where the horrendous abuse is a regular practise.

“Animal, that even can’t stand up, because they are so sick are also brought there, - said Prof. Elzanowki, referring to NGO’s investigations. – Beaten, dragged by tails and ears, kept without water’. Suffocated birds and piglets are carried in sacks like in Middle Ages.

‘The humanism is for humanists’ – responded agricultural official M.Sawicki obstructing the very idea of modern attitude towards cattle. Prof. Elzanowski convinced that with the kind of attitude of the establishment the chances to change crude realities are slim.
The vets reject to go to ‘black’ markets, because they are not registered and police doesn’t interfere arguing that they are not supposed to come otherwise then called by vets. The vicious circle turns multiplying the victims.
‘We should control the accuracy of the translation of the EU laws into national laws, - said Elzanowski. - The degradation of national laws under the pretext of following the European one is a common place. The EU prescribes the minimum condition and they say there are standards, but they are not’. According to professor there is a consensus among vets about the general degradation of national animal protection law.

 

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MEP Carl Shlyter (Greens) shared experience of Sweden where a progress was achieved, based on talks with the Muslim community, but unfortunately the Jewish community rejected to soften the rituals. They continue the practices, exporting the meat to the other countries.
Staggering a question of recruiting butchers for rituals doesn’t represent any problem: Jewish and Muslim butchers are selected from the pious individuals so they are engaged within their religious communities. Unfortunately the cruelty of the rituals translates into increase of violence towards vulnerable members of the society as women and children.
‘There are studies, showing that the violence in slaughter houses increases crimes’, - concluded Professor Elzanowski. But again, the ‘humanism is for humanists.

 

Anna van Densky

 

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