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Originally Posted by DtheP47
And another for you and Eric to consider Accy X
Ethical, organic, safe: the other side of halal food | Life and style | The Guardian
Extract: "In truth, 88% of Britain's halal meat comes from animals that have been stunned before slaughter, but the 12% that isn't generates controversy, even among Muslims. Of Britain's two most prominent halal certification boards, the Halal Food Authority allows stunning, while the Halal Monitoring Committee bans it, on grounds that stuns can sometimes kill the animals before slaughter. With a clutch of regulatory bodies, and varying definitions of what constitutes halal, customers are confused: there have even been calls to have halal meat labelled as "stunned" and "non-stunned"." |
While this story is laudable......I still would not eat Halal meat......unless there were guarantees that the animal had been stunned.
As for the stunned animal dying from the stunning process.......I think this is very unlikely.
If the animal needs to be prayed over or blessed for giving up its life then do it, stun the animal, then kill it.
As for killing my own meat. I know I could not do it. I accept that there are others in the community that can do so.....so I let them do it.
(there are people who frequently tell me that they could not wipe another persons bottom, something I did for 30 years or so - that would be no problem to me...so how about I wipe bums and someone kills my meat?)