Yesterday’s meeting of Stoke-on-Trent City Council debated a motion from the British National Party condemning halal slaughter. The BNP motion called for “a change in the law to minimise or prevent any further animal cruelty as a result of this barbaric method of slaughter” and for “an immediate ban on the use of all halal meat products in our schools”. It was heavily defeated.

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