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Rules of shackle line operations, waterbath and gas stunners, and facilities for slaughtering poultry, rabbits and hares in abattoirs.
Rules on restraining methods, stunning pens, captive bolt, gas and electrical stunning equipment, bleeding animals and shackling and hoisting animals.
Know which licence or certificate you must have to restrain, stun or kill animals which are not for human consumption, and how to carry out these operations.
How to legally carry out slaughter without stunning in accordance with religious rites, including how to restrain and bleed the animal.
How to legally kill your own poultry, cattle, pigs, sheep, goats, rabbits and hares to eat at home.
Know how to stun or kill poultry, rabbits and hares on small-scale farms.
How to unload, keep, move, handle, restrain, stun and kill animals not meant for human consumption.
Purchase has been made possible thanks to Natural England’s Nutrient Mitigation Scheme supported by £30 million of government funding
You need a full or temporary Certificate of Competence to perform many of the tasks required in a slaughterhouse.
Upper Tribunal Administrative Appeals Chamber decision by Judge West on 2 March 2022.
Data on live animals exported for slaughter and animals slaughtered in the UK without stunning by Halal or Kosher method.
Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, Karen Bradley, has today met Swedish tour operators to promote UK tourism and help grow this key international market.
Export bar placed on early 19th century jewellery bought by the Prince Regent
First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government
Businesses Urged to Make the Most of 2012.
Stunning imagery from this year's Royal Air Force photographic competition has been unveiled.
The G8 summit at Lough Erne showed that Northern Ireland is stunningly beautiful, open for business and that its best days really do lie ahead, writes Theresa Villiers
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