Bien-être animal et protection des minorités religieuses en Belgique. Le test de l’abattage rituel entre écarts régionaux et attente constitutionnelle

The regional developments in Belgian law show that animal welfare, and in particular the issue of ritual slaughter, are the subject of differentiated, even discordant, responses within Belgian institutional structures in 2021. Not only is there a tension between animal welfare, the protection of religious minorities and dominant cultural privileges, but also parliamentary debates reiterate new distinctions between religions and rely in an unquestioning way on the grids of the globalization of the food economy.