animals slaughter, the HALAL method?

Question

because the muslims are forbidden to consume blood the animals are slaughtered in such way that the animals HEART is kept beating so that all the blood can be pumped out, can anyone please tell me does the animal not suffer? The fast food shops that display the HALAL sign in the window are their animals killed in the same way?

Answer 1

Halal meat is barbaric. You'll get answers saying it's done in a 'holy' way and by experts blah blah blah. But I can tell you they've still been very much alive and still struggling when they're being dismembered. They stand in huge pools of blood waiting for their turn. It is very distressing and they are aware. And yes I've seen it. Western practices though not ideal still have laws which will bring prosecutions for unnecessary distress and suffering and cruelty. The muslims (and the jews) get away with it because it's 'religious'. Tag the word religion to anything especially muslim and you can get away with it.

Answer 2

I'm sorry, but I do not agree with the fact that where there is a law saying that animals have to be killed in a certain way, (being stunned first, so that they don't suffer), they can be killed for certain people in other ways, such as this Halal. If people don't want to eat "our" meat, either they become vegetarian or they buy meat that's imported from their country. Before people immigrate they should find out the things they need to know before hand, not come and change things that have always been OK. I don't want to be nasty, but if you go to someones country you should respect their ways, not change them because you prefer it in another... Also with that type of killing animals, there are more chances meat escapes the quality and safety controls.

Answer 3

I'm not well versed on halal, but I do know something on kosher meat, you do realise that within the mainstream meat industry animals are also kept alive, they are stunned before having their inner organs removed.

Within kosher the animals have to be killed in a certain way with the throats cut, I'd think halal is similar so just as humane – then also bare in mind in the wild animals will kill other animals by ripping them apart, slitting their throats and letting them bleed to death is far less cruel than both ripping them to bits as another animal would or stunning them before pulling out their organs, with no significant evidence to say that stunned animals do not suffer only that they are of course prevented from moving while being slaughtered.

Also within kosher, as again I would assume within halal, animals have to be healthy thus the animals are kept well, where as with mainstream meat industry animals are not as well treat by many.

Unless the animal was to have a short sharp blow to the head killing immediately the animals will suffer some amount of pain, thus is death, but I would not say it is as bad as some other ways for the animal to die. They are hung upside down in clean rooms (no blood allowed in the room or on the animals); they then have their throats cut where blood drains out until they are dead.

There is criticism but this for the most part comes from people who are ignorant of either the practice of halal/kosher, people who have seen practices claiming to be halal/kosher or people who don't know what the mainstream does to slaughter animals.

Halal makes sure the animals are treated well when they are alive, which is the important part, mainstream farmers often cause long-term suffering for the animals - thus why a few people who do not support animal cruelty will eat kosher or halal rather than go vegetarian.

Halal is halal, it is the same in a take away as it would be in a butchers.

Answer 4

I worked in a meat works that allowed a bloke to perform the Halal method of slaughter and it caused so much more work for the Trimmers they told him to FO within 3 days

Answer 5

Isn't it a bit hypocritical of any meat eater to say that one form of slaughter is more humane than any other? If any animal is bred to be consumed then it was already dead before it left the womb. And as none of us 'superior' humans actually really know what goes on inside the mind of any animal (particularly ourselves), how can we assume that no animal suffers emotionally at the point of slaughter, humane or otherwise.

Answer 6

habiĥa (method used to slaughter animals)
The conventional method of slaughtering all animals excluding fish and most sea-life is known as dhabiĥa (ذَبِيْحَة), often pronounced by non-Arabs as zabiha. It involves severing the major arteries in the neck of the animal, as well as the esophagus and trachea with one swipe of a nonserrated blade.


Criticisms of Dhabiĥa Halal
Some object to dhabiĥa halal and believe that it causes needless suffering to the animal which is not stunned before slaughter.

Advocates for dhabiĥa halal contend that this method of slaughter is actually more humane than the modern method of stunning before slaughter.


Advocates for dhabiĥa contend that it causes little or no pain to the animal and drains its blood more effectively than other methods. They also claim that the Islamic method of slaughter is the fastest method to kill the animal among those used in the modern day.[2] Many refer to a study done by Professor Wilhelm Schulze and Dr. Hazim at the School of Veterinary Medicine, Hannover University in Germany.[3]

Detractors however, most notably some animal rights groups, contend that this method of slaughter causes unnecessary pain and suffering to the animal when compared to modern methods, which involve stunning the animal prior to slaughter. In the United Kingdom, the government funded Farm Animals Welfare Council recommended that conventional dhabiĥa without stunning be abolished. [4]

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Inducing Unconsciousness
Electrocution is frowned upon by many Muslims, since it causes "small blood vessels (to) rupture" and leaves the "meat tainted with blood which is full of germs, bacteria and waste material." [5]

Debates still rage among Muslim jurists and the general Muslim population about whether or not stunning, anesthetics, or other forms of inducing unconsciousness in the animal prior to slaughter are permissible as per Islam.

Answer 7

there may be some suffering, but this is part of the religious belief. the problem with non-halal meat is that more intensive farming is used and can be long term suffering for the animals.

Answer 8

im not sure how they kill the animals, i think they cut their throats dont they? If thats the case the animal must suffer because death is not instant. Personally, i think it is a very cruel and inhumane way to slaughter animals it is unecessary suffering for the sake of religion. And God or Allah or whoever is supposed to be against all suffering!!

Answer 9

http://www.mustaqim.co.uk/halal.htm

Answer 10

Just keeep it simple and be a vegetarian or a pescitarian