(AFP) Halal meat from animals slaughtered by religious ritual without having first been stunned cannot be labelled organic, on animal welfare grounds, a top European Union court ruled Tuesday.
The way the meat is slaughtered “fails to observe the highest animal welfare standards,” said the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU).
The case came to the court after the OABA, a French association promoting animal welfare in abattoirs, urged the agriculture ministry to ban the labelling of such meat as organic.
French courts initially dismissed the OABA’s case before passing it up to the CJEU for a definitive ruling.
