Pre-Stunning And Animal Slaughter

EDM number 1527 in 2017-19, proposed by Mike Penning on 17/07/2018.
Categorised under the topics of Animal welfare, Food and Religion and faith communities.

That this House recognises that there is public concern about meat slaughtered in accordance with religious beliefs and thus not been pre-stunned, being sold or served to consumers who do not require their meat to be prepared in this way; further recognises that there are calls for such meat to be labelled as pre-stunned before slaughter; recognises that there are no specific requirements for meat to be labelled as pre-stunned at present and such labelling is voluntary; and calls on the Government to prepare for the introduction of a specific mark to identify meat that has been pre-stunned before slaughter to be introduced as a legal requirement so that the public can make a choice when they buy their meat.

This motion has been signed by a total of 60 MPs.