PETA spokesperson Ashley Byrne discusses the Hamtramck, Michigan, ruling allowing at-home animal sacrifice and how it, despite it's legality, is morally wrong on 'Jesse Watters Primetime.'
Byrne highlighted the concern for children witnessing these sacrifices.
"We have to think about the fact that children are often exposed to these religious rituals," she said."These animals' throats are slashed and their heads are manually torn from their bodies."in the United States, Byrne suggested there is no reason for animal sacrifice in modern times. "[The Constitution] does [protect religious freedom], but animal sacrifice should be a thing of the past because it's cruelty to animals, plain and simple."
Byrne said many Muslims — Hamtramck has a large Muslim community — are adverse to the practice of sacrifice because it is"cruel and unnecessary.""We see ritual slaughter in many different places in the country, but we also see people working to find alternate traditions, like some Santería priests use red wine instead of animal blood now," she said.
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