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Campaign for ethical meat label

June 23, 2011 13:12

By

Jessica Elgot,

Jessica Elgot

1 min read

A new campaign has been launched to introduce ethical certification for kosher meat.

The Chief Rabbi's environmental adviser, Rabbi Natan Levy, and Spencer Shaw, manager of events website Jewpro, have started a petition in order to mobilise wider communal support for the idea.

Rabbi Levy said: "Time and again, I have received an email or phone call from a frustrated Jewish consumer who is seeking unsuccessfully to eat meat that is both kosher and organic."

The Soil Association, the primary agency for approving organic food, has so far refused an organic label for kosher meat because it says animals must be stunned before slaughter.