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Wednesday, May 17, 2017
From the Liveblog of
Wednesday, May 17, 2017
Belgian regional parliament bans ritual animal slaughter
The parliament in Belgium’s Wallonia region today banned the slaughter of animals without first stunning them despite opposition from Jewish and Muslim communities defending their rituals.
With 66 votes for and three abstentions, the parliament in Namur, the main city of southern French-speaking Wallonia, adopted a ban that will generally take effect in June 2018, though ritual slaughter will be exempted until September 2019.
The ban on slaughter without first stunning or anesthetizing the animals does not apply to imports of kosher or halal meat into the Wallonia region.
— AFP
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