Label ALL meat as Religiously Slaughtered or Non-Religiously Slaughtered
We want the Government to create a law requiring all meat to have a label, such as a simple RS (Religiously Slaughtered) or NRS (Not religiously slaughtered), that states whether it has been religiously slaughtered or not.
Signatures
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Government response threshold (10,000) · 10,000/10,000 · reached
Debate threshold (100,000) · 52,272/100,000
- 29 MAR 2026Petition closedFinal total: 52,272 signatures
- 07 JAN 2026Government respondedDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsGovernment reply
There are no requirements to label meat from animals slaughtered in accordance with religious rites. Where information of this nature is provided it must be accurate and must not be misleading.
Read full response - 04 DEC 202510,000 signatures reachedEligible for a government response
- 29 SEPT 2025Petition opened for signatures
Background
We think that labelling meat as ‘stunned’ or ‘not stunned’ is not adequate because when meat has been subject to a ‘recoverable stun’, the throat is slit and the animal may wake up in excruciating pain to hear the religious blessing, unable to vocalise its distress.
I am concerned that religiously slaughtered meat, using inhumane methods, is entering the food chain and is being sold to people who may object to the method of slaughter, without it being labelled.