# Denmark bans halal and kosher slaughter. Justifiable? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [February 19, 2014, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/denmark-bans-halal-and-kosher-slaughter-justifiable/681724 "2014-02-19T18:54:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 35
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2014, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/denmark-bans-halal-and-kosher-slaughter-justifiable/681724/35 "2014-02-20T13:30:36Z")
> [@](#): > > Denmark has decided that responsibility to animal welfare trumps whatever practices individuals feel they should follow according to their interpretation of their God’s teachings. As a secular country, that tells me that that Denmark’s priorities are in a good place. I don’t know about Denmark, but in U.S. the “lifestyles” of most cows are so inhumane that the creatures, if intelligent enough to form such a judgment, might welcome an end to their tedious life, whether in a death that takes 10 seconds, or one that takes 30 seconds. (I’ve read that a main slaughterhouse torture for cows is waiting in queue after they’ve figured out what’s happening.) To focus on that possible 20-second difference, especially since the evidence is unclear and it could go either way, strikes me as bizarrely stupid. It’s the kind of lame-brained reasoning that gives fodder to right-wingers who think “liberals” aren’t very smart. The legislation seems so silly from an animal-rights perspective, that I wonder if it’s actually intended instead as a jab at non-Christian religions. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/denmark-bans-halal-and-kosher-slaughter-justifiable/681724)._