Halal Slaughter and Hypocrisy

It’s easy to criticise halal slaughter. It’s extremely easy. It’s fantastically, stupendously simple. It’s one of the easiest, simplest and most obvious things in the world. (Apologies to Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie for stealing their joke format.)

Halal slaughter, according to most though not all Islamic scholars, demands that an animal be slaughtered w…