Can Halal food be banned? It is almost as cruel as those who eat it.?

Question

second question mark is nothing to do with me!

Answer 1

Although I generally support an integrated multi-culture (not the ghettos that exist in some areas), I thoroughly disagree with amending our slaughter rules that allow halal/kosher methods. The general slaughtering techniques that are used should in the vast majority of cases render the animal unconscious before the ghastly moment (I am a veggie). But halal methods prolong the animals suffering. It's a disgrace.

No right minded meat eating person would want to know the meat on their plate has reached that point by the animal having to endure such torture at the end of their days.

Our rules were set up from this perspective, in that basis no matter what your faith, you should have to buy meat that has used anti-cruelty techniques. If people are not willing to eat their meat in this manner they should go to another country which supports their desires.

Answer 2

I've witnessed halal slaughtering and never seen an animal suffer.
I also spend most of my time with Muslims or people who have grown up in Muslim countries and have never experienced cruelty.
We have to get things into perspective. It's never a good idea to put a whole group of people into the same category. If we (Christians, Muslims, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists) continue to do this, the problems can only get worse.

Answer 3

I don't see your point...Halal condones the quick and least painful method to slaughter an animal. A lot nicer than the huge meat factories in the Heartland.

According to Islamic tradition, the conventional method used to slaugther the animal involves cutting the large arteries in the neck along with the esophagus and trachea with one swipe of a nonserrated blade. This method of slaughter serves a dual function: it provides for, debatably, a relatively painless death and also helps to effectively drain blood from the animal. The latter is important because the consumption of blood itself is forbidden in Islam. Muslims consider this method of killing the animal to be cleaner and more merciful to the animal. During the blood draining process, the animal is not handled until it has died.

Answer 4

What, son...like fish on Friday?
Come on...it's almost like kosher - meaning 'permissable'. The usage of both terms are similar.
Was taken to a cow-slaughtering farm in Shropshire 40 years ago on school trip...that was neither Kosher or Halal - but just as sickening some answerers think Halal is.

Answer 5

Ignorant idiot!!

Do you think that in an industrial slaughterhouse they play soft music, to the cows, pigs & sheep and and lulled to sleep? They are herded in to a pen en-mass. Processed in several columns into a holding pen - 'stunned' using an pneumatic or electric 'bolt' thet gets blasted through their skull & brain, hung up (whilst still quivering) by the hind legs and throat slit within 30 seconds (UK law). Immediately they are disembowled and all internal organs detached so the rest of the processing can begin.

Halal, blesses the animal then simply misses out the stunning part, and also allows the animal to bleed out completely before butchering furthar - so in some way is MORE humane!!

Answer 6

If you went to a slaughter house and watched the methods of killing an animal, I'd think you'd agree that the halal method is a lost less stressfull for the animal. The number of animals that are not stunned correctly and then not shot/bolted correctly with the first try is incredibly high.
I would suggest you research your question more thouroughly. Most abbatoirs would be happy to let you observe both methods for you then to reconsider your opinion......

Answer 7

don't wear blinkers man, all animal are killed for food. Halal is ritualistic and pedantic, God told moses to tell his flocks to kill animals in certain way.
Blame Moses if you think Halal or Kosher is cruel.
Kosher and Halal means Clean not cruel.

I am an enlightened and civilised Christan.

Answer 8

but halal food is good in some religions. for example in Islam halal food is when you slaughter the animal you bless it. i think that is decent. maybe if they slaughtered it in a different way that would be better.and in Islam haram is drugs,smokeing,ect.

so really in Islam it's not cruel. it's actually good,because you eat and animal that has been blessed.

plus that is just plain mean. i don't care if the second question is yours or not...it's mean. people who eat halal food aren't cruel. my sister only ate halal foods for a couple of months and she isn't cruel. she is completley nice.

Answer 9

Meat is only halal if the animals are properly cared for. The halal method of slaughter looks barbaric but death is probably quicker than in a slaughterhouse. So who's cruel?

Answer 10

Halal food is the same as Kosher food ha ha ha ha