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Le Comité National d’Éthique des Abattoirs vient-il de perdre son éthique ?

By April 13, 2021May 5th, 2021No Comments

Document type : OABA press release

Preview: The CNEAb [Comité national d'éthique des abattoirs] has just suspended its meetings on slaughter without stunning, for a reason that has been criticised by the OABA .

The Chairman and Vice-Chairman of the National Abattoir Ethics Committee (CNEAb) have just informed the members of the "Slaughter without Stunning" subgroup that it will not meet "again in the immediate future".

In an email dated 8 April 2021, this decision is justified "in view of the context and the latest current events on the subject".

At issue is the 22 February to 2 March poster campaign by the OABA and the Alliance Anticorrida which was circulating until early April on social media networks.

This campaign, intended to inform our fellow citizens about the reality and extent of non-stunned slaughter in France (62% of abattoirs slit the throats of conscious animals), saw strong opposition from professionals in the meat industry and religious groups.

In a letter dated 17 March 2021 addressed to the Chairman and Vice-Chairman of the CNEAb, several representatives of the meat industry and the French Consistoire Central Israélite sought to silence the OABA by asking the CNEAb to advise subgroup members to "refrain, throughout the duration of the subgroup's work, from taking any action that might compromise this consultation".

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