Islamic Way of Slaughtering

[Lilly]

Why is Islamic Way of Slaughtering is so Brutal ?

Research: Islamic Slaughtering and Western method of Slaughtering.

Let’s begin with a small introduction with the term HALAAL

What is Halaal ( ﻝﻼﺣ )?

Halal is an Arabic word meaning lawful or permitted. The opposite of halal is HARAAM (ﻡﺍﺮﺣ ), which means unlawful or prohibited. Halal and haram are universal terms that apply to allfacets of life. However, we will use these terms only in relation to food products, meat products, cosmetics, personal care products, pharmaceuticals, food ingredients, and food contact materials.

While many things are clearly halal or haram, there are some things which are not clear. Further information is needed to categorize them as halal or haram. Such items are often referred to asmashbooh, which means doubtful or questionable.

All foods are considered halal except the following (which are haram):
Swine/Pork and its by-products - Read more on WHY PORK IS PROHIBITED
Animals improperly slaughtered or dead before slaughtering
Alcoholic drinks and intoxicants Carnivorous animals, birds of prey and certain other animals Foods contaminated with any of the above products,

Foods containing ingredients such as gelatin, enzymes, emulsifiers, and flavors are questionable (mashbooh), because the origin of the seingredients is not known.

Let’s now move into the topic.

The Islamic practice of slaughtering animals by means of a sharp cut to the front of the neck has frequently come under attack by some animal rights activists as being a form of animal cruelty, the claim being that it is a painful in human method of killing animals. In the West, it is required by law to stun the animals with a shot to the head before the slaughter, supposedly to render the animal unconscious and to prevent it from reviving before it is killed so as not to slow down the movement of the processing line. It is also used toprevent the animal from feeling pain before it dies.

German Research Studies Pain,

It therefore may come as a surprise to those who have made such acclimations to learn of the results of a study carried out by Professor Wilhelm Schulzeand his colleague Dr. Hazim at the School of Veterinary Medicine, Hannover University in Germany. The study: ‘Attempts to Objectify Pain and Consciousness in Conventional (captive boltpistol stunning) and Ritual (halal, knife) Methods of Slaughtering Sheep and Calves’ concludes that Islamic slaughtering is the most humane method of slaughter and that captive bolt stunning, practiced in the West, causes severe pain to the animal.

In the study, several electrodes were surgicallyimplanted at various points of the skull of allanimals, touching the surface of the brain. Theanimals were allowed to recover for several weeks. Some animals were then slaughtered by making a swift, deep incision with a sharp knife on the neck cutting the jugular veins and thecarotid arteries as well as the trachea andesophagus (Islamic method). Other animals werestunned using a Captive Bolt Pistol (CBP). During the experiment, an electroencephal ograph (EEG) and anelectrocardiogram (ECG) recorded the condition of the brain and the heart of all animals during the course of slaughter and stunning.

The results were as follows:

I – Islamic Method When you slaughter in Islamic way the blood is drained from the flesh, where as other method ofkilling clots the blood and 45 percent of the blood remains in the flesh, hence eating such meat is highly dagerous to health, especially kids.

1. The first three seconds from the time of Islamic slaughter as recorded on the EEG did not show any change from the graph before slaughter, thus indicating that the animal did not feel any painduring or immediately after the incision.

2. For the following 3 seconds, the EEG recorded acondition of deep sleep - unconsciousness. This is due to the large quantity of blood gushing out from the body.

3. After the above-mentioned 6 seconds, the EEG recorded zero level, showing no feeling of pain atall.

4. As the brain message (EEG) dropped to zero level, the heart was still pounding and the body convulsing vigorously (A reflex action of the spinal cord) driving a maximum amount of blood from the body thus resulting in hygienic meat for the consumer.

[waleedhbk]

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Awesome share

I feel so sad when my bakra is being slaughtered

[KKF]

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**the other day i watched a camel slaughtering in Pakistan and i admit it was brutal and there was no justification for that method. it was even more disgusting that hundreds of people gathered to see the torture and enjoy...it was kinda festive atmosphere.

we use the crudest form of slaughtering. Islam doesn't say how to do it. it's our moral responsibility to keep updating with humane/painless methods of slaughtering as it becomes available.

Presently, a pellet shot to the temple of the animal makes him go unconscious and then slaughtering is kinda painless. this is the method in use these days in the western world which is kinda acceptable to the Humane Society.**

[James_Bhaand]

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KKF this might be of interest to you

[http://www.camelgate.com/pdf/slaughter.pdf

r](http://www.camelgate.com/pdf/slaughter.pdf)ead the “humane” way of slaughtering camels, part 6.2

[diwana]

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Source?

[Faris_Udeen]

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You know why we slit the throat dont you?

Its much more simpler and has less to do with the pain the animal feels, than it has to do with the state of the meat itself.

Majority of diseases are carried in the blood, by slitting the throat efficiently and severing the inner bones and cartilage you allow the majority of the blood to pump out first. This also means Halal meat is less likely to harbour diseases which would have been in the blood and the meat itself tends to be much more resilient if you wanted to store it for later... however in hot countries meat will rot quickly unless its treated or cured.

Muslims in ancient times were not just slaughtering animals by cutting the throat because for the time it was the most humane method, it was also the most sensible method in the long term allowing a better quality meat to be obtained by this means than if you simply killed the animal and did not drain enough of the blood...

Not sure how many of you are hunters but you will notice that the meat you obtain by reciting takbeer over an arrow or more commonly these days a bullet is of inferior quality to the meat which has been rendered halal by the cutting of the throat. Offcourse the other method is to hunt using less than lethat blows or a shot from a less powerful weapon that simply brings the prey down, which can then be Ziba-ed.

Not sure about wether the animal feels more or less pain by the boltgun or knife method... suffice to say that a very sharp knife in skilled hands can be very swift indeed and that if pain is felt it would be momentary just like the boltgun.

One is amused sometimes by the bad butchers method of sawing the knife back and forth, a decently sharp blade can deliver fine cuts even through very thick hide with excatly a single stroke.

A curved blade is most preferable for the slicing motion and tests have shown that even in untrained hands a radically curved blade will slice far better than some of the knives commonly in use which resemble little more than kitchen knives. As far as I know Islam permits any reasonably sharp blade but I have always been told that the knife must be full tang and secured by at least three rivets, not sure whether this is for religous significance or wether a full tang blade with three rivets is simply the most secure type of blade to use... perhaps an Alim can explain the reasoning why this is so all I know is that it has always been the way of my people.

Also when hunting one should refrain from using barbed arrows, broadheads and bullets such as those with hollow points or those which fragment as this can cause unnessary pain to the animal. Ussually with medium to large game such as deer a traditional rifle bullet such as 303 calibre is more than sufficeint to bring down large game.

As far as I am aware using poison taints the meat and i'm not sure if its haram but we have never used poison in Pakistan at least against edible prey. As for using tranquilizers and such I know some people use them but have never had the experience of hunting with non-lethal ammunition.