"There will be no change in British policy on slaughter"

"There will not be any change in British policy regarding religious freedom and religious rights of minorities in the UK." This weekend Britain's Deputy Prime Minister , Nick Clegg said. Clegg referred to an elected president of the Association of Veterinarians, John Bakewell , that is the initiator of regulations , like the recently promulgated regulations in Denmark to ban ritual slaughter in the UK.

Vice President of the Conference of European Rabbis and Dane Senior Court of London, Rabbi Menachem Galli said the president-elect of Union vets who declared his intention to enact the regulations against slaughtering yet he took office. "He was my hands reckless in his statements and in any case we arranged to meet with him and we hope we will be able to explain to him the most important thing and talk him his intentions. "

Earlier the president of the Conference of European Rabbis, Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt said, in response to his announcement of Bakewell "This is a test of Judaism in the United Kingdom and we will work shoulder to shoulder to meet this threat. This global trend of restricting freedom of religion is like an epidemic spreading across Europe and European leaders to act with more determination against the plot completely contrary to EU laws. "

Hgr"f Goldschmidt quoted a European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso , in his last meeting with the Conference of European Rabbis on the determined opposition to any violation of freedom of religion in Europe and the initiative to hold a special meeting of all the representatives of EU member states to discuss attacks on freedom of religion in past several EU countries . " European Union was founded in part to protect the rights of minorities continent will not tolerate infringement of religious freedom as a key underlying observance of circumcision and kosher slaughter . I will discuss with the representatives and human rights activists to express our commitment to the continued protection of these rights and regulated by law. "

Recall about a month ago the Danish Minister of Agriculture and Food regulations according to which there stun the animal before slaughter - which is against Jewish law. It also banned the kosher slaughter of Poland in the country.

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