Cruel slaughterman boasted he sold chefs diseased meat

[Guest guest]

Halal killing of animals is cruel and unnecessary.

Ingredients in chocolates and yoghurt (eg gelatine) labeled

Halal gelatine should be studiously avoided (so should all gelatine

which is derived from animals). I believe the type

of cruelty below which occurred in the UK, also occurs in Australia

and around the world.

 

Cruel slaughterman boasted he sold chefs diseased meat

 

The International Express newspaper

(The weeks news from Britain)

Tuesday January 14th, 2003

 

An animal trader who bragged he sold diseased

meat to restaurants during the foot-and-mouth crisis

also indulged in horrific slaughterhouse cruelty.

Undercover investigators videod Michael Hawkswell

boasting that he traqnsported infected food.

 

He claimed he could supply cows, lambs, goats, deer; pigeons

and peacocks - often to Asian caterers whose food he knew

Would be heavily laced with spices - but the animals were

killed with brutal disregard for their suffering, a court heard.

 

Hawkswell,27,from Ripon, Yorkshire, and his partner Isap Lakha, 67, of

Dewsbury, who both admitted to cruelty and slaughterhouse offences, were

warned

By the Harrogate court they faced jail when they returned for

sentencing.

 

The pair set up a slaughterhouse in Londonderry, North Yorkshire, to

slay animals using Halal methods - Islamic dietary needs.

Ten goats died in agony. They should have bled to death after

having their throats cut but the blade was so blunt several attempts had

to be made

by " sawing " with the knife.

 

Mike Butcher, chief of RSPCA's Special Operations Unit, said: " We

believe they

were selling infected meat in restaurants.

 

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