Anaxagoras
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Switzerland doesn't allow either.
The only reason halal slaughter is allowed in Norway, while kosher is not, is because the Norwegian muslims are willing to compromise and stun the animal first. If the jews were willing to make the same concession, they wouldn't have a problem there in the first place.
The issue here is whether the banning of Kosher had in part an anti-Semitic motive. There was such a negative intent in the banning of Kosher in Switzerland both in the 1890's and a few years back http://modiya.nyu.edu/handle/1964/489 - note as well that Switzerland also seeks to completely ban importation of kosher meat:
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In Switzerland, a ban on kosher slaughter has been enforced since 1897, when the people supported this measure through a referendum with clear anti-Semitic undertones. At the time, Jews had recently been granted full civil rights and some Swiss citizens feared an invasion of Jewish migrants from Eastern Europe, who they considered to be unassimilable, foreign and unreliable. By banning the performance of a core Jewish ritual, the Swiss people found a disguised way to limit the immigration of Jews into Switzerland. In 2002, when the Swiss government attempted to lift the century-old ban, animal rights activists, extremist political groups (on the left and the right), and unaffiliated citizens expressed violent opposition. They called shechita practice a "barbaric" and "sanguinary," an "archaic tradition from the time of the ghettos," and asked Jews to either become vegetarian or leave the country. Should a proposed ban on the import of kosher meat be accepted by the Swiss people in 2006, it will effectively force Jews who observe kashrut to abstain from the consumption of meat. Muslims will also be affected by this move.
Similarly http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_aspects_of_ritual_slaughter#Norway quote:
Norway copied the Swiss campaign to ban ritual slaughter. The same arguments were presented as in the Swiss campaign and an appeal was made by the Jewish community to the Norwegian parliament not to introduce the legislation... In the 1890s, protests were raised in the Norwegian press against the practice of shechita. The Jewish community responded to these objections by assuring the public that the method was in fact humane. Efforts to ban shechita put sincere humane society activists in league with antisemitic individuals. In particular, Jonas Søhr used the cause as a means to attack not just the slaughter methods of the small Jewish community in Norway, but also the community itself... Those who opposed a ban spoke of religious tolerance, and also found that schechita was no more inhumane than other slaughter methods. C J Hambro was one of those most appalled by the antisemitic invective, noting that "where animal rights are protected to an exaggerated extent, it usually is done with the help of human sacrifice"[37]
This issue has been around for a long time so it would have been known to legislators in Norway that Jews have slightly stricter dietary laws than Muslims who would have been able to "compromse" as they had done so in the past.
Personally I'm of two-minds about Kosher as I also care about animal welfare so if it does increase suffering then thats an issue but what's clear here is the anti-Semetic invective.
< Message edited by Anaxagoras -- 6/17/2012 12:25:02 PM >
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