News/Press releases

Representatives of the Jewish community have accused The British Veterinary Association of obfuscating the need for proper labelling of meat slaughtered according to a religious method in order to mislead consumers. In a press release sent out to coincide with a...

Shechita UK has paid tribute to the MPs who spoke passionately in defence of religious slaughter at a Westminster Hall debate this morning in the House of Commons. Of the seven speakers in the debate, Louise Ellman, Lee Scott, Mike Freer, Mathew Offord and, Jonathan...

Introduction Discussions about religious slaughter appeared in the media once again on Wednesday 7th May, when The Sun and the Daily Mail both ran stories which claimed to ‘expose’ the fact that a chain of pizza restaurants was using Halal chicken in its food without...

In response to renewed calls for pejorative labelling of Halal and Kosher meat Shechita UK has called again today for far more comprehensive labelling of meat, which does not stigmatise faith communities of religious slaughter, in a letter to the Daily Telegraph. See...

The Times article Saturday the 5th April 2014, highlighted a great deal of confusion and misinformation about the levels of mis-stunning of animals at the point of slaughter in the United Kingdom. For many years Shechita UK has maintained that the problem of...