The British government wants kosher and halal meat to be labelled so customers know what they're buying -- animals that have had their throats slit and have bled to death and, according to government advisors, in significant pain.

More than 100 million animals a year are killed for kosher and halal meat in Britain. The animals are killed according to Jewish and Islamic law, and religious slaughter is exempt from the provisions of the British Welfare of Animals (Slaughter or Killing) Regulations 1995, which insist that creatures such as cows, goats and chicken be stunned first.

In Canada where kosher food sales are rising, kosher meat must be labelled, there as yet no comparable law about halal.

Now let's have the same tolerance extended to foie gras. Animal activists actually threaten eaters and restaurateurs who serve the fabled goose/duck liver which is made by stuffing the animal. If bleeding an animal to death is ok as long as labelled, why can't foie gras too simply be labelled.

Those who don't like the method of slaughter can then not buy the meat.