FWIW the halal slaughter process (despite the hysterical claims of dodgy current affairs shows) is as humane as any other slaughter process, in fact to be certified as halal the slaughter must be humane and the surroundings clean. Death has to be swift and complete and the animal has to be dead before any further processing can take place. In non-halal abbatoirs that use things like the bolt or electrical shock to cause death sometimes there are errors and animals take ages to die. Not only that but in chicken slaughter it is possible for a chicken that lifts its head at the wrong time to go through the plucking and gutting process still alive which franky turns my stomach.
In Islam we believe that animals have the right to respect and a cruelty free life and death - a slaughterer is not even meant to show the animal their knife before they kill it so that the animal is not scared.
FWIW in Australia there are regulations regarding humane practice that all slaughter houses are meant to adhere to. Halal slaughtering usually involves stunning the animal and then cutting it's throat while it is unconscious.
Last edited by Phteven; February 4th, 2008 at 02:02 PM.
: expanded a bit
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