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February 22nd, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
Miss Le Pen, whose party plays on fears of growing Muslim influence, cited a
recent public television documentary that said all abattoirs in the greater
Paris region use halal methods but do not always label the meat as such.
“It turns out that all the meat distributed in Ile de France is,
unbeknown to the consumer, exclusively halal meat,” she said on
Saturday. “This is a real deception, the government has been aware of
this for months.”
On Tuesday she clarified her comments to say that all meat distributed in the
region could be suspected of being halal, as without a label “neither
you nor I know which is halal and which is not”.
“Widespread animal suffering, in violation of French and European law, is
not trivial,” she said on France Inter radio in response to Sarkozy.
“The fact that a majority of French people are being misled about what
they buy is not a trivial controversy,” Le Pen said.
Her campaign team stepped up the pressure Tuesday, calling for a “ban on
the slaughtering of animals for consumption without stunning”.
“Mandatory stunning has two advantages: it reduces animal suffering and
allows consumers to be reassured about the slaughtering conditions of the
meat they are purchasing,” the campaign said in a statement.
Authorities and meat producers also denied Miss Le Pen’s claim.
Her claim is “absolutely false”, Claude Gueant, the interior
minister, said on Sunday, noting that, while there are halal slaughterhouses
in the region, their products are clearly marked.
“Veterinary services ensure that abattoirs send halal production to
people who want to consume halal meat,” he told French media, saying
there were “frequent checks to avoid any misrepresentation of products”.
Producers said that, while slaughtering in the region was mostly done
according to Islamic or Jewish traditions, only about two per cent of the
meat consumed in the greater Paris area came from the region itself.
Miss Le Pen is struggling to catch up to Mr Sarkozy and Mr Hollande in the
election campaign, with polls showing her with between 16 and 20 per cent
support in what is increasingly looking like a two-horse race.
Home to western Europe’s largest Muslim minority, estimated at between five
and six million, France has for years been debating how far it is willing to
go to accommodate Islam, now the country’s second religion.
The country has come under fire from Muslim groups for a series of measures
authorities say are aimed at protecting France’s secular tradition,
including a ban on wearing full-face veils such as the Islamic niqab and the
burka.
France will vote in the first round of a presidential election on April 22,
followed by a second-round run-off on May 6, and Hollande is well ahead of
Sarkozy in the polls.
Source: AFP
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