Responses to my report on ritual animal slaughter

Responses to my report on ritual animal slaughter have been coming in, slowly.

I’m posting them here as PDFs. You should be able to open the files if you have Adobe Acrobat Reader.

The report was sent out on 7th August 2009.

Response from the FAWC (PDF, 290.07 KB) — Downloaded 37 times

Response from UKIP (PDF, 253.64 KB) — Downloaded 46 times

Response from DEFRA (PDF, 485.18 KB) — Downloaded 34 times

The Conservative Party responded as follows, by e-mail on 9th September:

“Thank you for writing to Mr Herbert enclosing your report on pre-stunning animals.  We have read your report with great interest and will make good use of it as we consider this issue in the future.  Mr Herbert will most likely write to you shortly with a fuller response and our initial thoughts.”

I’m looking forward to the “fuller response” as I still have no idea where the party stands on this issue, but guess it is in the area of appeasement.

Only one who has failed to even acknowledge the report so far: Sadiq Khan MP – my local MP and the principal addressee (the only one who was really obliged to reply!). This, despite the following statement on his website:

“I endeavour to respond promptly to every letter sent to me by my constituents.”

- Sadiq Khan MP

It looks like he’s just not “endeavouring” hard enough. Maybe it’s difficult to “endeavour” when you can’t find an answer – so you just ignore your constituent instead.

Update: Second reply from Conservatives