Huffington Post
November 30, 2013
Both Jews and Muslims insist that kosher and halal meat comes from an animal which has not been stunned before killing, and and is killed in accordance with religious instruction.
Rabbi Menachem Margolin, Director General of the European Jewish Association and Poland’s Head Mufti, Tomasz Miskiewicz, claim the Polish ban ”constitute a violation of the regulation on the protection of animals at the time of killing, which permits so-called ritual slaughter, without prior stunning, in the case of animals subject to particular methods of slaughter prescribed by religious rites.”
“The improper practices of Poland create uncertainty as to the ability to rely on directly applicable EU law and a threat to conducting ritual slaughter on the territory of Poland,” they wrote in a letter to European Commissioner in charge of agriculture and rural development Dacian Ciolos.