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§ 144

SFCR (SOR/2018-108) · Part 6 Commodity-specific Requirements

§ 144 Ritual slaughter

Despite section 141, a licence holder who ritually slaughters a food animal to comply with Judaic or Islamic law must

(a) restrain the food animal;

(b) administer one continuous, fluid cut with a knife, without the knife being lifted off the food animal, resulting in the rapid, simultaneous and complete severance of the jugular veins and carotid arteries, in a manner that causes the animal to bleed immediately; and

(c) rapidly and completely bleed it, to render it unconscious in a manner that prevents it from regaining consciousness before death.

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