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mod. alcohol intoxicated. Kelly was stunned and had to be carried home to recover.
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References in periodicals archive
But a spokesman said: "Whilst we would prefer to see all animals stunned before they are slaughtered, we respect the rights of religious communities to eat meat prepared in accordance with their beliefs."
Slaughter of conscious animals 'must end'
By law, all animals should be stunned before slaughter, but UK and European Union rules give exemptions on religious grounds.
Holy row over halal
"We also believe clear labelling on meat products to indicate if the animal was stunned or not stunned would give consumers the opportunity to make a clear and informed choice about the meat they buy."
Holy row as councils suppling schools with halal meat accused of "normalising cruelty to animals"; WARNING DISTRESSING CONTENT: Is halal meat a religious right or grotesque animal cruelty?
ALMOST 1,000 people have signed a petition calling on Kirklees Council to stop serving schoolchildren halal meat from animals which were not stunned before slaughter.
Calls for council to stop serving pupils halal meat
Campaigners have raised concerns that lambs might not be stunned before they are killed for export to Saudi Arabia in order to comply with the Gulf kingdom's halal requirements.
Welfare worry over Saudi lamb exports
The action stunned the Texas Eighth Court of Appeals in El Paso, too.
A Texas judge ordered electric shocks to silence a man on trial. The conviction's been thrown out
'(The win) stunned a lot of people out there, it stunned a lot of people back here.
Fil-Am Perkins books final CWC q'finals ticket
These episodes of ischemia tend to be cumulative and result in a "stunned" myocardium that does not contract normally.
Hemodialysis-induced myocardial stunning: a review
UK Food Standards Agency figures from 2011 suggest 84 per cent of cattle, 81 per cent of sheep and 88 per cent of chickens slaughtered for halal meat were stunned before they died.
Stunning has to be answer
A BIG debate has taken place in Britain this week over halal and kosher meat being sold by restaurants and supermarkets without labelling - and the fact that at a number of UK abattoirs some animals slaughtered under these systems are not being stunned beforehand.
BAN THIS PAINFUL WAY TO DIE
In Australia, cattle are stunned prior to slaughter using a penetrative captive bolt, non-penetrative (percussive) captive bolt, or electrical methods, and, according to Gregory and Shaw (2000), when stunning is done correctly, the animal feels no pain and becomes instantly unconscious.
Quality assessment of longissimus and semitendinosus muscles from beef cattle subjected to non-penetrative and penetrative percussive stunning methods
Summary: Horse racing pundit Derek Thompson says he was stunned when he heard that 11 horses at the Godolphin stables in Newmarket were doped.
Commentator stunned by horse doping
Each year, an estimated 50 to 200 Kemp's ridley sea turtles, which are green and have a triangle-shaped head, may get cold stunned in Massachusetts starting in late October to December.
Neither snow, nor rain, nor ocean waves ... stranding network volunteers overcome unfavorable conditions to save endangered sea turtles
And Brian Reid's Ayr stunned St Mirren 1-0 in Paisley thanks to Chris Smith's header nine minutes from time.
SFL ..................... .................... 2 SPL ........... ...0; LEAGUE CUP SHOCK NIGHT