Poland is to draft new laws so that it does not have to stop slaughterhouses from producing kosher meat, a prospect that has angered the Jewish community in the country where Nazi Germany massacred millions of Jews during World War Two.
The constitutional court ruled this week that kosher slaughter methods, which involve killing livestock while they are still conscious, contravened a Polish law which states animals must be stunned before slaughter.
The agriculture ministry said in a statement it “has taken actions to prepare legal solutions,” that would amend the current animal protection law and allow the practice to continue legally.
“I believe this it is the only way to get out of the current legal impasse,” said Piotr Kadlcik, the head of the Union of Jewish Communities of Poland. “We will be fully satisfied when shechita (kosher slaughter) is legal again.”
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