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January 11, 2021

In Banning Kosher Slaughter, European Countries Not Only Trample Religious Freedom, but Also Make a Mockery of the Humane Treatment of Animals

Kashrut protects both animals and humans from cruelty.

Last month the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) upheld a Belgian law effectively proscribing kosher and halal slaughter, which had been challenged on religious-liberty grounds. Rafi Eis explains what differentiates the Jewish conception of the moral treatment of animals from that underlying the Belgian law—and similar regulations in other European countries. He takes as his point of departure the prohibition against partaking of a limb torn from a living animal, which, according to rabbinic tradition, God gave to Noah when first permitting him and his descendants to eat meat:

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