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Halal Slaughter: What Evidence?
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http://www.grandin.com/ritual/kosher.slaugh.html
I am sure you will like to read the world accepted methods on many slaughter methods from world wide accepted Halal slaughter abattoirs.
So much more has been done since Germany.
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Hi Kerryanne,
Your article was informative. The message i took from it was the barbarity does not reside in whether the animal's throat is cut or it is stunned, but in how the animal is handled leading up to the animal death. The description of the slaughter using the conveyer restrainer was amazing. Even after the animals throat was cut it remained oblivious to its fate.
Islam insists that the manner of slaughter should be that which is least painful to the animal. Islam requires that the slaughtering instrument not be sharpened in front of the animal. Islam also prohibits the slaughtering of one animal in front of another.
You'll find hadith in support of these statements here: http://www.islamawareness.net/Animals/animals3.html
The practices filmed in some Indonesia slaughter houses were counter to the Shariah. You may recall the footage with one cow visibly anxious and shivering.
This is how the Prophet responded to a similar situation:
"Do you intend inflicting death on the animal twice — once by sharpening the knife within its sight, and once by cutting its throat?"
The same web site uses the following hadith to argue for some form of stunning prior to cutting the throat:
"Allah, Who is Blessed and Exalted, has prescribed benevolence toward everything and has ordained that everything be done in the right way; so when you must kill a living being, do it in the proper way — when you slaughter an animal, use the best method and sharpen your knife so as to cause as little pain as possible."
On the other hand, the experiments with the double rail conveyer restraint (in your article p4-5) shows that cutting the throat without prior stunning does not have to be painful.
salaams