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Jewish and Muslim leaders have accused the Lancashire County Council leader of bias against their communities against after the local authority voted to stop supplying non-stunned meat to schools.
Prior to the vote, the council supplied non-stunned meat to 27 schools to comply with the universally-accepted requirements of halal.
Although it did not provide schools with kosher food due to the small size of the county's Jewish community, the Manchester Jewish Representative Council told the JC the local authority "has taken a stand on religious slaughter".
In 2012, the council briefly stopped supplying halal meat to local schools over a production issue, but after children boycotted their school dinners, the non-stunned meat was reinstated.