the halal slaughter method in Islam killed animals without any cruelty. ..

Germany :source http://www.dw-world.de/

Halal, Kosher Slaughter Unacceptable, say German Vets
..Speaking on Germany's main public
broadcaster ARD, Ernst Breitling,
president of Germany's federal chamber
of veterinarians had earlier called kosher
and halal slaughter "cruelty to animals."..

..German Agricultural Minister Horst Seehofer also
rejected calls for a law against slaughter without stunnung.
"Politicians cannot ignore religious freedom," he said,
in a reference to the fact that Federal Constitutional
Law grants minorities the right to live according
to their faith among themselves if they otherwise
observe the law, as well as the right to exercise
freely their chosen profession or trade.

In 1995, the German Constitutional Court
had ruled that Islam did not necessarily
demand ritual slaughter, making the practice illegal.
But in 2002, it re-established the right
for German butchers to slaughter
animals according to Islamic religious
ritual in a case brought by a Turkish butcher from Giessen.
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read +Halal, Kosher Slaughter Unacceptable, say German Vets Germany Deutsche Welle 10.07.2008