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My mother and I were just discussing a leaflet campaign she read of, wherein PETA allegedly asserted that the consumption of meat is responsible, among other things, for conflict in the Middle East, claiming that kosher and halal methods of animal slaughter were vicious and cruel and therefore made the conflicting parties more likely to slaughter each other.
Yes, I know.
Anyway, I remarked that, to the best of my knowledge, halal meat must be slaughtered humanely, or it's not halal. But then I realised that I don't know anything about kosher animal slaughter - despite having read quite a bit about it.
You see, the descriptions I read, which did claim to be fact, were 1930s Nazi anti-Semitic propaganda pieces, which you might say don't constitute a reliable source.
And I realised that I have quite a lot of data in my head that I've acquired, in the course of studying history, but which is mentally flagged as propaganda and which I therefore assume is probably not true. (Or, if it contains a kernel of truth, is nonetheless mostly not true.)
It's odd.
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