Oh, wait, I am. There are enough militant religious people that I figure the world needs a couple of militant atheists to say the things religious apologists would rather not hear.
New Zealand Jews are up in arms over changes to the Animal Welfare Code which require all animals to be stunned before slaughter. For some strange reason, kosher meat must be killed while fully awake and aware via throat-slitting. Further research indicates that animals must be pretty much perfect for a kosher slaughter, or shechita, and that stunning animals "marks" them so they are flawed and not kosher.
Jewish groups are saying that "Few Jews will want to migrate here. We will be seen as a country where ... our traditions and beliefs are not respected or valued".
You know what? That argument works both ways - it's just not cool to put the shoe on the other foot. This is what happens when you turn the argument around: "Few New Zealanders will want Jews to migrate here. They will be seen as a religion where our traditions and beliefs are not respected or valued".
What makes their tradition and belief of cruelly slaughtered animals more important than our tradition and belief in animal welfare? Why should they get a special pass to treat animals in a way which our society has deemed cruel and unnecessary just because they've been treating animals like that for a long time and they think God thinks that eating animals which don't feel their death will make them unclean?
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