Enlightened community bans "outdated" religious practice

[Sparko]

NAFAICT. MitUS.

"However, prior to humane slaughter pistols and electric stunners, pigs, sheep and other animals (including cattle) were simply struck while fully conscious."

[Roy]

"However, prior to humane slaughter pistols and electric stunners, pigs, sheep and other animals (including cattle) were simply struck while fully conscious."

That's historical, not present practice. It doesn't support that slaughter is by a shotgun slug to the head. It doesn't even mention shotguns.

[Sparko]

That's historical, not present practice. It doesn't support that slaughter is by a shotgun slug to the head. It doesn't even mention shotguns.

I was wrong about shotguns. They use pistols or captive bolt guns.

It was saying that prior to using guns and electric stunners (which I mentioned) they used to just knock them unconscious, with a pole or stick.

[Mountain Man]

A Belgian region has banned halal and kosher slaughter

Halal is the Muslim version of Kosher. This affects Muslims as much as it does Jews.

So now you're "fact checking" jokes, just like the fake news media you so adore.

[Mountain Man]

Does Belgium ban medical research testing on animals?
Apparently not: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-33015460

But one is pure and enlightened science while the other is ignorant and barbaric religion, so it's different.

[Roy]

So now you're "fact checking" jokes,

He's fact-checking you, so... yes.

[Mountain Man]

He's fact-checking you, so... yes.

[Darth Executor]

Does Belgium ban medical research testing on animals?
Apparently not: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-33015460

sounds like false equivalence.

[Meh Gerbil]

sounds like false equivalence.

It could be false equivalence.
I still think the smart money is on anti-Semitism.

[Darth Executor]

It could be false equivalence.
I still think the smart money is on anti-Semitism.

It's no different from gay wedding cakes, except this time it's hitting two liberal voting minorities. All i feel is schadenfreude.

[Starlight]

I still think the smart money is on anti-Semitism.

I'm curious, why do you see anti-Semitism everywhere? Are you Jewish? As I pointed out to MM, this law affects Muslims as much as it does Jews. Do you believe it also to be motivated by anti-Muslim sentiment, or do you think being against Muslims is also anti-Semitic?

You guys seem to be in blatant denial of the obvious: That the animal rights movement has been campaigning heavily for the last decade about the importance of killing animals humanely and the need to stun animals before killing them, and that that is the motivation for this law.

Ironically, if the religious people really believed their own claims - that their holy books' recommended way of killing animals was out of concern for animal well-being and the holy book was recommending the kindest way to kill the animals that was technologically available to the people of the day - they they ought to support new and kinder ways of killing animals that are made available to us by technology. Instead they go all literalistic and claim we have to stick with the bronze-age way of killing the animals because their holy book says so.

[Darth Executor]

I'm curious, why do you see anti-Semitism everywhere? Are you Jewish?

Evangelicals have a huge, entirely one-sided bromance with Jews.

[Meh Gerbil]

I'm curious, why do you see anti-Semitism everywhere? Are you Jewish? As I pointed out to MM, this law affects Muslims as much as it does Jews. Do you believe it also to be motivated by anti-Muslim sentiment, or do you think being against Muslims is also anti-Semitic?

You guys seem to be in blatant denial of the obvious: That the animal rights movement has been campaigning heavily for the last decade about the importance of killing animals humanely and the need to stun animals before killing them, and that that is the motivation for this law.

Ironically, if the religious people really believed their own claims - that their holy books' recommended way of killing animals was out of concern for animal well-being and the holy book was recommending the kindest way to kill the animals that was technologically available to the people of the day - they they ought to support new and kinder ways of killing animals that are made available to us by technology. Instead they go all literalistic and claim we have to stick with the bronze-age way of killing the animals because their holy book says so.

Because animal rights and anti-Semitism in Belgium come from the same crowd: left wing extremists.
Source: http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columni...heights-326993

Jews have been fleeing Belgium because of the anti-Semitism:
http://forward.com/news/breaking-new...-jews-fleeing/

So yeah, while animals can be tortured in the name of improving eye liner I find it a bit curious, that in a place over run with leftist leaning anti-Semites, a relatively quick death (though not ideal) for a cow is suddenly a really big problem. Denying the people you hate a proper way to produce their food is an invitation to leave - they're basically banning ethnic food. But hey, I wouldn't want to color your analysis of the subject with statistics on Jews leaving the area - you know, maybe they're just leaving behind generations of personal history because they're paranoid?

And for the record, I'd be all about putting animals down in the most merciful way possible.
And for the record, I wish Israel would disappear if only to remove the scape goat in the middle east - maybe after the adder attaches itself to your nose you'll be able to see it.
I've no end time theology tied to Israel and even if I did I wouldn't see it as the job of the USA to preserve that state.
A sure sign a country is on the wrong path is when they try to force some prophecy.

[Meh Gerbil]

Oh look:
Since 1997, the number of European countries producing foie gras has halved. Only five countries still produce foie gras: Belgium, Romania, Spain, France and Hungary
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foie_gras_controversy

I guess white people food is exempt.
How did I know to look for this and you didn't?
Probably has something to do with knowing how to start with a good premise: anti-Semitism.

[Meh Gerbil]

And also, I'm not Jewish.
They're easily the most irritating minority on the planet.
I'm freakin' borderline anti-Semitic because I'm sick of the constant kvetching.