article_snippet: However, Edwards has insisted Edwards is an animal rights activist and that the incident was not racially-aggravated .
article_snippet: However, Edwards denied that Edwards was 'racially motivated' when Edwards carried out the attack on the supermarket chicken and will face trial in July over the charge.
article_snippet: At the court hearing today, it was said that Edwards was simply drawing attention to the 'inhumane' halal methods of animal slaughter, which involves slitting the animal's throat to allow the blood to drain out.
article_snippet: Edwards says Edwards wished to draw attention to the inhumane halal methods of animal slaughter and that was Edwards motivation rather than racial prejudice. '
article_snippet: Manchester Magistrates' Court was told that Edwards was simply drawing attention to the 'inhumane' halal methods of animal slaughter, which involves slitting the animal's throat to allow the blood to drain out .
article_snippet: Mike Cahill, defending, said Edwards was protesting against halal slaughter and the reference to terrorism in the stickers referred neither to race nor religion.
article_snippet: Edwards said: 'Edwards uses terrorism in the stickers but that can't denote race or indeed religion.'
highlights_snippet: But denies that anti-Jihadi'
  Edwards was 'racially motivated' when anti-Jihadi'
  Edwards put stickers on meat .
  