What steps does he propose to take to assist the industry to encourage home slaughter and home market development?

Home slaughter may not appeal to everyone.

Home slaughter should be distinguished from 'private slaughter' in a legally approved slaughterhouse.

Download a guide to home slaughter regulation in Scotland from the FSA website (PDF, 135KB).

This delicacy is usually eaten for breakfast after a home slaughter during the Islamic festival of Eid al-Adha (Feast of the Sacrifice).

Gastronomy: Although today the local gastronomy has become known in the area, it is worth to mention, quince jelly and pipirrana, products of home slaughter", porridge croutons" and maimones soup of tata Frasquita .

Proper disposal of carcasses and offal after home slaughter is difficult in poor and remote communities and therefore dogs readily have access to offal from livestock, thus completing the parasite cycle of Echinococcus granulosus and putting communities at risk of cystic echinococcosis.

The term 'home slaughter' means the slaughter of a livestock animal by the animal's owner outside of an approved slaughterhouse on their property for their own personal consumption, or for the consumption of members of their immediate family, provided that the requirements of Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy legislation have been met.