Don’t Have a Cow, Flanders: Guidance for the European Court of Justice as it Considers the Flemish Parliament’s Ban on Ritual Slaughter
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Abstract
With the European Court of Justice poised to determine the Constitutionality of the Flemish ban on ritual slaughter, the Court’s ultimate decision will have wide-ranging ramifications for all of Europe. The Court’s task of ultimately having to determine the proper balance between animal welfare and religious liberty involves having the clarity to see through the racist sentiments on clear display throughout Belgium, and separate clear science from pseudo-science. The Court should draw upon the ways the United States and Canada have addressed this conflict, as well as carefully analyze the protections outlined in the EU’s Charter of Fundamental Rights. Ultimately, it should strike down Belgium’s new restrictions on ritual slaughter.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it