[Margaret Pilkington]

You made it sound as if the animal was being cudgelled to death. Yes a bolt is s blunt instrument....But it is considered to be the most humane way of stunning beasts prior to a kill. You were using emotive language to impress a point.
Are you a meat eater? Do you care about how your meat gets to you table?
If you are not a meat eater then any method of killing an animal for food will be abhorrent to you......and I can see why you would use emotive language......designed to put meat eaters off meat.

I want to be able to make choices of whether I spend MY money on meat that I consider has been killed humanely.
I do not consider halal meat to have been humanely killed......that is my opinion, to which I am entitled.