News/Press releases

The UK Independence Party’s (UKIP) has made a shock policy announcement by today supporting the campaign to ban non stun slaughter. The party had previously supported faith communities on this issue. Shimon Cohen the Campaign Director of Shechita UK, has released the...

A Polish court has ruled that the de-facto ban on religious slaughter imposed last year, is unconstitutional. Five out of the nine justices who reviewed the ban at the Polish Constitutional Tribunal Wednesday ruled it ran contrary to the country’s constitution. The...

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...