Re: Britain leads the world

William T Goodall wrote:
> Jews and Muslims
> are allowed to ignore the laws on animal cruelty and engage in the
> barbaric practice of slitting the throats of live animals without
> numbing them in order to create kosher and halal meat."

I don't have a big problem with this one.  Back when
it became a tradition, it WAS one of the most reliably
humane ways to slaughter animals.  Given that the animals
are raised to be killed and eaten, the throat-slitting adds
little extra cruelty to the process.

...
> where everyone has the same rights, and nobody is granted special
> rights just because they claim their ideas come from an invisible
> supernatural being. 
...

I'm with you on this one.  Ideas should stand on their
own, not on their supposedly supernatural provenance.

				---David