THE MYTH OF ANIMAL CRUELTY IN RELIGIOUS SLAUGHTER ? The assertions made by Mr John Blackwell, president-elect of the British Veterinary Association, That Religious slaughter is painful and cruel to the animal(In the Times/Independent/Daily Mail newspapers on 6th March), can not be allowed to go unanswered. First: there is no single proper scientific evidence in the world which prooved that the proper divine Islamic method of animal slaughter(Dhabh) when done properly causes any pain or suffering to the animal at time of slaughter. On the contrary,there are scientific medical studies which prooved that stunning causes pain and suffering to the animal: (Please see the famous study carried out by Professor Wilhelm Schulze and his colleague Dr Hazim at the School of Veterinary Medicine,Hanover University in Germany/12/7/02: The study titled: Attempts to Objectify Pain and Consciousness in Conventional(Captive bolt pistol stunning) and Ritual (Halal/knife) Methods of slaughtering Sheep and Calves ; This study has prooved evidences of pain and suffering through the repeated EEG records and testing on the brain when the animal is stunned. On the contrary,there was no evidence at all that the direct Islamic method of animal slaughter has caused any pain or suffering to the unstunned animal . We should not go far:It is a common sense that if any electricity is applied to the human body of any one of us will cause pain and suffering and sometimes death...However unfortunately our stunned animals can not talk or complaint or protest! Second: The Farm Animal Welfare Council seems to contradict itself when it has mentioned in its Report in 2003: IT IS DIFFICULT TO MEASURE PAIN AND DISTRESS DURING THE SLAUGHTER PROCESS IN AN OBJECTIVE SCIENTIFIC MANNER.... (Report on the Welfare of Farmed Animals at Slaughter or Killing:Part 1:Red Meat Animals/clause 194) So where is the Scientific evidence for the claimed pain in Religious Slaughter? Third:Stunning has been found to cause many new forbidden outcomes ,apart from the pain and cruelty to the animals,to Muslims and Jews : Death of some animals before the slaughter(according to FAWC in 1980:ONE THIRD OF THE BIRDS ARE KILLED IN THE STUNNER) Latest figures showed that 41 % of poultry stunned DIE before doing the cut? The meat of the animal who died before slaughter is forbidden to eat,and is bad for our health. Stunning has been found to weaken the heart or stop it and cause also the rupture of the small blood vessels inside the meat:Salt and Pepper Haemorrhage,thus causing less bleeding out and more blood staying inside the meat/carcass. Blood is forbidden to consume,even a drop,in both Islam and Judaism and Christianity. Blood, medically today , is a major health hazard for many diseases and infections,if consumed even in small amount. The Captive Bolt pistol used for cows have been found to spread BSE/Mad Cow disease? This is why many States in the US has stopped it..(Not yet in the UK?) Etc..... Fourth:We Muslims and Jews,have been ordered to slaughter our animals,according to our holy Scriptures which are all well explained and were implemented too exactly ,by the same method, by all the prophets of GOD(Abraham,Moses,Jesus and Muhammad,peace be upon them) ,even the Bible has got many statements which do prohibit the different forbidden outcomes resulting from stunning today(blood,death of the animal,cruelty...)! The merciful Jesus,peace be upon him, who was a Jew ,always ate meat from unstunned animals(KOSHER)! But Christians unfortunately have failed to follow Jesus in eating Kosher unstunned meat, as they failed in many other teachings of Jesus too? Surely,GOD and all his merciful prophets and holy Scriptures in the 3 Abrahamic faiths can not be all wrong and cruel by causing pain to the slaughtered animal when is not stunned! More,we all from the 3 Abrahamic Faiths,would like to recommend to DEFRA/FAWC/RSPA ... and to the new Chief vet: Mr John Blackwell , and to all the consumers and public at large to eat the meat from unstunned animals for: Humane/animal welfare,Health ,economic and religious reasons too! No doubt,we are all with ,all animal welfares and hygiene regulations ,laws and all new technology and sciences before and after the act of slaughter,but without any change to our HOLY PERMANENT ACT/CUT of animal slaughter and which is sacred in all the three Abrahamic Faiths. It is a human right for any one to practice his/her religious belief and practices and we would like our real HALAL slaughter/ meat to be labelled(UNSTUNNED) in order to satisfy the demands of our own Muslim consumers(informed choice). However , similarly ,we like to label all stunned meat :Bullet,gas,electric water bath, electric voltage...) in order to have a proper informed choice! We ,Muslims, are not forcing any non Muslim to eat our Holy Humane Halal healthy meat Finally :It is arrogant for any one who is not a Muslim to presume that he can teach us the practice of our faith,or pretend to be more merciful to the animal,than GOD Almighty or his merciful beloved prophets..! GOD protect us from those who think they know better than HE! Dr A.Majid Katme(MBBCH,DPM) Spokesman: Islamic Medical Association/UK on the Halal Prophetic method of animal slaughter for Halal meat halaltayyibmeat
Posted on: Fri, 07 Mar 2014 10:20:38 +0000
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