(18 Jul 2013) SHOTLIST
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Jerusalem
1. Close-up of meat being sliced
2. Wide of butcher chopping meat, putting it into bag
3. Close-up of meat being sliced
4. Mid of meat fridge on the pavement
5. Close-up of meat in fridge
6. SOUNDBITE: (Hebrew) Shimon Osery, Butcher:
"I think that the Jewish way of slaughter causes the least amount of suffering to the animal."
7. Mid of Osery putting hunk of meat into freezer
8. Mid of Ziv Maor, spokesman for Israel's chief rabbinate, reading a religious text
9. Close of religious text
10. SOUNDBITE: (Hebrew) Ziv Maor, spokesman for Israel's chief rabbinate:
"There is no definite ruling on whether kosher slaughter causes more or less suffering to the animal in comparison to the electrical stunning that is portrayed or considered as more humane. There is no definite ruling on this issue and when politicians must make a call on such a complex situation they need to look to external considerations and the relevant external consideration in this particular issue is that banning kosher slaughter will fatally harm freedom of religion for millions of Jews in Europe and of an important minority in Poland."
11. Wide of meat display
12. Close of poster showing cow parts
Ramallah, West Bank
13. Mid of butcher butchering meat
14. Tilt down of butcher cutting meat
15. Close of meat being cut
16. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Eyad Jabareen, Ramallah resident
"For sure as a Muslim we pay attention to buying meat that is slaughtered the Islamic way so it's Halal meat because this is important and sensitive in Islam. This is the way I buy my meat, only from a butcher that I trust."
17. Mid of butchers packaging meat
Brussels, Belgium
18. Wide of European Jewish Congress members at press conference
19. SOUNDBITE: (English) Serge Cwajgenbaum, European Jewish Congress Secretary-General:
"It's not only to complain about the law which has been adopted by the Polish parliament but it's to call upon the European institutions, European Union, European Parliament to reinforce the directive so to ensure and protect the rights of Jews but as well of Muslims to practice and perform their religious and their religion according to their beliefs."
20. Cutaway of audience
21. SOUNDBITE: (English) Ruben Vis, European Jewish Congress Vice President:
"We take this issue very, very serious and so serious that we are consulting with lawyers, lawyers of DLA Piper, one of the biggest firms in the world, just to underline that this issue is a centrepiece of the activity of the European Jewish Congress for the Jews not only in Poland but on the European Union level as well."
22. Cutaway people listening
STORYLINE:
Jewish leaders met in Brussels on Thursday to discuss Poland's decision to ban kosher and halal methods of slaughtering meat.
Until January, Poland was making good business exporting kosher and halal meat to Israel and Muslim countries.
But religious slaughter was banned under pressure from animals' rights groups, which say it causes unnecessary suffering because the livestock aren't stunned before being killed.
Jewish residents of Jerusalem on Thursday expressed their criticism of the ban.
"I think that the Jewish way of slaughter causes the least amount of suffering to the animal," said Shimon Osery, a butcher in Jerusalem.
The Polish animal rights groups said the livestock should be stunned before they are killed.
But Israel's chief rabbinate said there is no proof that being stunned with electricity causes more or less suffering than kosher slaughtering techniques.
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