Muslims' boycott of animals incurs Belgium losses worth €1.7 million

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Thursday 29 Oct 2015 - 21:31 Makkah mean time-16-1-1437 Pic: Flanders Today site Brussels (IINA) – Belgium's Minister for Animal welfare Ben Weyts said that the sheep trade sector in his country has incurred an estimated loss of 1.7 million euros, due to Muslims' boycott of sacrificial animals slaughter during the feast of the sacrifice, Eid al-Adha, in late September, in protest against the ban imposed on slaughter of animals without stunning them. The minister said, in a presentation to the members of the regional Flemish parliament, that only 8,463 heads of sheep were slaughtered in this region, during the last Eid al-Adha festival, which is a decrease of about 30,000 sacrificial animals compared to a year earlier, during which 38,300 heads of sheep were slaughtered. It is worth mentioning that there are more than 600,000 Muslims living in Belgium, mostly from Morocco and Turkey, which has a population of about 12 million people. AB/IINA