Yes, I do want to stop the Jewish population eating 'kosher' meat if this is what it means.
It seems to me this is how religions go. Someone (Buddha, Mohammed, Jesus, whoever) makes a connection with universal truth/the universe/God/the stream of life - however you see it - and does their best to convey to others how to also connect. Initially perhaps, the first followers do what they did and also connect/get it. But gradually, the basic truth accretes all sorts of 'practices' that are more and more detached from the central truth, and more and more insisted upon by followers, 'priests' etc. And the more the practices are rigid, the more people miss the point. If you like, it's like layers of an onion and many religions, for many people, exist in the outer layers and don't even know there's a heart.
But you're never allowed to say so. You're never allowed to question every little detail. Because we respect people's religious freedom. Ok, well I do, provided it doesn't impinge upon other, more fundamental freedoms.
As far as I'm concerned, treating animals respectfully and not causing unnecessary suffering is a much closer layer to the heart than anyone's religious practices.
No doubt I will offend. But non-stun slaughter seriously offends me.
