Halal meat taken off school menu after race row

Croydon Today
January 21, 2009

http://www.islamist-watch.org/1299/halal-meat-taken-off-school-menu-after-race-row

Excerpt:

Old Palace School is no longer serving Halal meat on its school menu after parents complained.

The Whitgift Foundation's John Whitgift Schools committee took the decision after some parents were furious pupils were not being given a choice.

The Halal method, in which animals are slaughtered by a single slit to the throat, is the only was of killing livestock allowed under Islam.

But the method is deemed cruel by some animal-lovers, who object to the slow death it involves.

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