- Religious slaughter of animals in the EU http://www.europarl.europa.eu/regdata/bibliotheque/briefing/2012/120375/ldm_bri(2012)120375_rev2_en.pdf 10 comments europe
- The Court of Justice of the EU has decided that the provision allowing religious slaughter without stunning the animal in slaughterhouses is valid | It does not violates neither the freedom of religion of the European Charter of Fundamental Rights, nor the animal welfare mainstreaming clause https://www.ejiltalk.org/de-humanisation-cjeu-liga-van-moskeeen-en-islamitische-organisaties-provincie-antwerpen-on-religious-slaughter/ 3 comments worldnews
- Poland's top court has outlawed the religious slaughter of animals weeks before the EU is due to allow the practice on religious grounds. It will no longer be legal to allow animals to have their throats cut and bleed to death without first being stunned. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-20523809 201 comments worldnews