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THE AYAH AGAINST STUNNING:

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THE AYAH AGAINST STUNNING:
 In the Name of ALLAH ,the Most Merciful the Most compassionate  ‘Forbidden to you (for food) are dead animals, blood, the flesh of swine and that over which has been invoked other than the name of ALLAH (s.w.t) that which has been killed by strangling or by a violent blow or by a headlong fall or by being gored to death; that which has been partly eaten by a wild animal, unless you are able to slaughter it (in due form) and that which is sacrificed on stone (altars).

( Qur’an: Surah Al-Maida 5/3)

Stress gives you unhealthy meat

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STRESS TO THE ANIMAL AT TIME OF DHABHWILL GIVE YOU UNHEALTHY MEAT!
THESE ARE ONLY  FEW SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCES (there are hundreds more) ABOUT THE MANY HARMFUL CRUEL CAUSES OF STRESS TO OUR INNOCENT ANIMALS IN THE ABATTOIRS:
First in  crowded suffocated transport with many deprivations  there are a lot of stress / then kicking/beating/sticking//Whipping/noisy machines/non familial surroundings/in  rough handling for stunning/rough tough cruel slaughter men/  throwing the sheep in the air/Animals fighting/been hungry and thirsty/abnormal light/seeing smelling blood/seeing other animals slaughtered in front of them/pain from the stunning process…with a lot of abnormal distractions?
And in hanging the chickens upside down(unnatural) before the cruel forcing of the heads inside hot electrified water bath strangulating some and killing a large number before DHABH
-STRESS produces a lot of  harmful hormones(Cortisol/Adrenaline…) which affect badly the quality of the meat in a lot of ways(see details in the papers by Temple Grandin)  ,full of the toxic  harmful hormones in the meat , MAKING THE MEAT VERY UNHEALTHY TO EAT  ???
SURELY NOT TAYYIB  !!!!
  
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The Effect of Stress on Livestock and Meat Quality Prior to and During …

https://animalstudiesrepository.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1019&context=acwp…
by T Grandin – ?1980 – ?Cited by 109 – ?Related articles

13 Jan 1979 – The effects of stress on cattle, pigs and sheep prior to slaughter are reviewed. … ingcaused by mixing strange animals together is a major cause of dark cutters …… abattoirs, In Humane Killing and Slaughterhouse Techniques, …

Animal Welfare in Slaughter Plants – Temple Grandin

https://www.grandin.com/welfare/general.session.html
by T Grandin – ?Cited by 36 – ?Related articles

Good systems are available for handling cattle and sheep at the abattoir. … Stress caused by prolonged restraint will be a severe problem if live animals are …

The slaughter of farmed animals in the UK | Viva!

https://www.viva.org.uk/what-we-do/slaughter/slaughter-farmed-animals-uk
Animal welfare organisations are rarely permitted to visit slaughterhouses however Viva! … Penetrative captive bolt stunners drive a bolt into the skull and cause … In addition to the stress of being in an unfamiliar environment, the electric goad …

Therapeutic Approaches in Animals to Reduce the Impact of Stress …

https://scialert.net/fulltextmobile/?doi=ijp.2011.568.578
by D Mota-Rojas – ?2011 – ?Cited by 26 – ?Related articles

… used to reduce stress in slaughter animals during transport to abattoirs. … trips do not allowanimals enough time to fully recover from the initial stress caused …

My visit to the slaughterhouse: crossing the line between life and meat …

https://www.theguardian.com/…/2014/…/slaughterhouse-crossing-line-between-life-m…
29 Aug 2014 – I’m fine with dead animals, but the point at which animals cross from living …. But thereason Heywood’s farm chose to work with the Burrows abattoir, and … humane as the pigs don’t get as stressed as when they are pronged.

‘A national disgrace’: Catalogue of animal suffering at Scottish …

https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/…/thousands-of-scottish-farm-animals-have-su…
19 Apr 2017 – One slaughterhouse worker was said to have been “intimidating and … Scottish ministers stressed that mistreatment of animals was … and imminent risk to animal welfare” or hadcaused “avoidable pain, distress or suffering”.

CHAPTER 2: Effects of stress and injury on meat and by-product quality

www.fao.org/docrep/003/x6909e/x6909e04.htm
PSE in pigs is caused by severe, short-term stress just prior to slaughter, for example during off-loading, handling, holding in pens and stunning. Here the animal …

Is meat from stressed animals unhealthy? | ScienceNordic

sciencenordic.com/meat-stressed-animals-unhealthy
8 Jan 2012 – “The influence of stress on meat is most often caused by sudden incidents, such as transport or arriving at a slaughterhouse. The stressing of animals harms their welfare and the quality of their meat, so we have routines that make for as little stress as possible,” he says.

My Islamic Medical response to the Consultation of UK Parliament on Religious slaughter (for Lamb and Beef)

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ISLAMIC MEDICAL RESPONSE TO THE GOVERNMENT’s CONSULTATION ON RELIGIOUS  ANIMAL SLAUGHTER

 In Britain, Muslims and Jews are allowed to slaughter their animals according to their religions and  without the use of stunning before the act of slaughter(CUT).So Muslims can do DHABH/Zabiha according to the teachings and practice of the final Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) without been forced to use any stunning technique:(Electric shock for the sheep , electric water bath for the chickens , Captive bolt pistol for the cow).Muslims ( & Jews) have been exempted, otherwise all others are forced by law to STUN their animals before doing the CUT/slaughter.This is the law in Britain for long times and as it is now.THIS IS THE ONLY HALAL METHOD OF ZABIHA FOR TRUE HALAL MEAT!(without the use of any stunning).This is the only HUMANE METHOD FOR A HEALTHY BLESSED TAYYIB MEAT.As we it was proved in many studies and my  scientific study beforeAnd this is the OFFICIAL MUSLIM VIEW IN BRITAIN FOR HALAL MEAT, without using  any stunning.Unfortunately , over the years ,there have been many  attempts by different non Muslim bodies related to the Government  like: DEFRA,FAWC(Farm Animal Welfare Council) , RSPCA(Royal Society for the Protection of animals)  and many animal right organisations to change the law and to FORCE MUSLIMS AND JEWS TO USE STUNNING BEFORE DOING ZABIHA AND BEFORE DOING THE CUT.Alhamdulillah, many Muslim organisations and leaders and Imams opposed stunning and opposed any change in the law.The Jews were stronger in their opposition.The government and all the above mentioned bodies and organisations  were encouraged to change the Prophetic Islamic law on Zabiha  because MANY BRITISH  MUSLIM BUSINESS COMPANIES for Halal meat(?) IN BRITAIN WERE USING STUNNING like the non Muslims and they all put the sign : HALAL on their meat, shops, restaurants etc..?They CHEATED their own Muslim communities  and they caused about 95% of the chicken and meat consumed by the British Muslims(3 millions) to eat as halal ,WHILE THEY ARE NOT TRULY HALAL and were stunned without the knowledge of the Muslim consumers???Halal meat sign is the most ABUSED word in the world !ALSO ALMOST ALL IMPORTED MEAT AND CHICKEN TO ARAB/MUSL:IM COUNTRIES ,EVEN IN SAUDI ARABIA, as ?halal? , CAME FROM STUNNED ANIMALS /non Prophetic method of DHABH/ZABIHA ?Unfortunately, Muslim governments and Ulamas and Awqafs are DOING NOTHINGIN ORDE  TO STOP THIS DANGEROUS NON HALAL MEAT AND CHICKEN BEEN CONSUMED BY THEIR OWN MUSLIM COMMUNITY???These rich “muslim” companies and businessmen  in Britain and abroad , are doing this non Prophetic/non Islamic practice of stunning mainly because of GREED and the “worship of money” !Others were simply IGNORANT about the good law for Muslims in Britain(slaughter your animals , according to your religion andwithout stunning) , but  most were  IGNORANT about the Islamic humane Prophetic method of Zabiha…and more ignorant about the :CRUELTY , MANY HARAMS  and THE MANY PROBLEMS AND HEALTH HAZARDS resulting from the use of stunning.
Lately a group from the Members of Parliament (MPs) in Britain have produced a consultation on Religious slaughter for BEEF and LAMB .
Enclosed below is my ISLAMIC MEDICAL RESPONSE ON THIS CONSULTATION.
Unfortunately  , many MPs are working  now behind the screen , in order to change our HUMANE PROPHETIC ISLAMIC METHOD OF DHABH/ZABIHA/animal slaughter and to FOCE Muslims and Jews to use stunning??? BELOW IS MY ISLAMIC MEDICAL RESPONSE TO THE CONSULTATION:
TO THE BEEF AND LAMB ALL-PARTY PARLIEMENTARY GROUP

 London /UK  Dear all,                 Ref:  Muslim Medical Response to the Consultation on the Beef and Lamb All-Party                  Parliamentary Group We would like first to thank you for giving us the chance to respond to your Consultation on Religious slaughter regarding Beef and Lamb.  We would like in the beginning, to inform  you that,  our organisation: ISLAMIC MEDICAL ASSOCIATION(IMA)/UK ,was the first and the  only Muslim organisation in the UK in the beginning, who took seriously the issue of Religious slaughter , as by-law , and without the use of any type of stunning and in order to have  true HALAL MEAT for the Muslim consumers.Our Campaign started about 43 years ago, by the Founder and Ex-President of the organisation: Dr Ghulam M Khan, who wrote  before a  scientific book on Religious slaughter and stunning:
AL-DHABH Slaying animals the Islamic wayIt was The first Muslim book on Religious slaughter.(we can send you a copy  of the book in PDF in a separate E mail).We campaigned all these years to KEEP the law as it is : by  allowing both:Muslims and Jewsto slaughter their animals according to their religions and without the use of  any stunning.(Exemption from stunning).The Act of  halal animal slaughter(direct method)  is clearly prescribed and in details in the teachings of Islam and by all different schools of thoughts in the Muslim world(without stunning)..This holy divine method was implemented before by all Prophets of GOD like:Abraham, Moses ,Jesus and Muhammad(peace be upon them).Our beloved Jesus was a Jew and he ate and blessed Kosher meat (without any stunning to the animal).We believe that the Christians today  are not implementing the teachings of Jesus on animal slaughter! British Muslims and all Muslims in the world  fully support all animal care and welfare ,all sciences and technology and all hygiene and regulations in animal slaughter, but the holy direct method of animal slaughter ,without the use of stunning,  should  be allowed and  maintained , in order to supply true halal meat to our own Muslim consumers.
Our Islamic opposition  to the use of any stunning is based on a lot of reasons , as we will explain  in details later.
SOME OF THESE REASONS:
-Humane/animal welfare/Physiological explanation of the Cut
-Health
Islamic religious
– Plus: The many Cruelty  and  non islamic  and undesirable  outcomes resulting from  the use of stunning .
Many of these reasons were explained well  before in my scientific medical study  on stunning and the Islamic Prophetic direct method of animal slaughter( AN UP-TO-DATE ASSESSMENT OF THE MUSLIM METHOD OF SLAUGHTER) , which was presented   in a Symposium  organised by UFAW in 1986  in the Zoological Society of London.
The title of the Symposium was : HUMANE SLAUGHTER OF ANIMALS FOR FOOD
I will be quoting some of what I have mentioned before in my study;
We have to emphasize first that  RELIGIOUS SLAUGHTER if done PROPERLY ,will give  “painless” quick irreversible   peaceful  natural physiological death  , as GOD asked us to do!
Allow me  now to give some medical physiological explanation of the Act of proper Religious slaughter , as stated in my previous medical  study:

Then, by  using a very, very sharp knife (which should be kept like a surgeon’s knife in sharpness and cleanliness, as previously stated by DR Ghulam Khan (UFAW, 1971), a Deep swift cut done instantaneously and quickly to the blood vessels of the neck (the two caroid arteries which carry blood to the brain and head, the two jugular veins which bring blood from the brain back to the heart), the trachea (windpipe) and the oesophagus (gullet), but the central nervous system (the spinal cord) should be kept safe and intact (not cut).

This deep, large cut through all the blood vessels of the neck causes acute blood loss and haemorrhagic shock: we know the blood is under great pressure , especially in the big carotid arteries (systolic pressure ) and at high speed and, according to physical law, the pressure always goes from the high to low resistance – the point of the cut is the scene of low resistance for blood to and from the brain. As we have a fully intact, alive heart, so most of the blood is going to be pumped and poured out instantaneously and quickly under pressure leading to a rapid fall in the blood pressure. Thus depriving the brain of its main source of oxygen and glucose, and with no blood which is necessary to keep the animal alive and functioning and able to deal with any perceptive sensation this leads to anoxia and almost immediate loss of consciousness (anesthetization or “stunning” ). The cerebrospinal fluid pressure falls even more rapidly than the blood pressure because of the jugular veins being cut, and this results in a deep shock and more loss of consciousness.

The animal, at this stage after the cut, is in a stable and quiet state with no movement or any distressed behavior. One would assume, if there was any pain or suffering, it would kick, move or show signs. After this short resting phase, and because the brain is deprived of oxygen and blood due to the huge amount of bleeding, the heartbeats increase in order to increase the flow of blood to the brain and other deprived areas. Tonic and clonic involuntary contractions and convulsions start and occur as automatic physiological reflexes in order to send and push blood up, especially to the brain. These contractions and convulsions are ‘painless’ (not, as the layman would imagine, that the kicking is due to the pain) especially when the animal is already unconscious and still has an intact spinal cord with safe nerve centers to the limbs, muscles and organs. So, we have a huge amount of bleeding from the initial cut then blood loss is continuing with the squeezing pressure of these contractions and convulsions, leading to maximum bleeding-out and less retention of blood in the carcass, giving a better quality of meat [both safer and healthier (this is like direct method of slaughter, “but without stunning”)].

I would like to end this section of my talk with at least one testimony from, for example, Lord Horder GCVO, MD, FRCP, who explained this type of slaughtering scientifically (and without the use of stunning):

‘The animal loses consciousness immediately. It is difficult to conceive a more painless and rapid mode of death; for a few seconds after the cut is made, the animal makes no movement its body is then convulsed, the convulsive movements continue for about a minute and then cease. The interpretation of this fact is clear: the cut is made by a knife so sharp and so skillfully handled that a state of syncope with its associated unconsciousness follows instantaneously upon the severing of the blood pressure. The movement of the animal which begins at about 90 seconds are epileptiform in nature and are due to the blood-less state of the brain (cerebral ischemia with complete anoxaemia). Sensation has been abolished at the moment of the initial syncope.’

Of course, there have been many other statements by eminent scientists giving the same explanations and conclusions about the direct act of slaughtering such as DR Leonard Hill (1923), Sir Lovatt Evans, Professor Harold Burrow, I M Levingen (1979), Professor F R Bell. Mr. Openshaw, Mr. Hayhurst etc. (Some are quoted, in Impact Magazine 1985).

Let me quote Prof. Leonard Hill, F.R.C.V.S, who strongly believed and expressed his views in his article – that the incision applied in the Ritual Slaughter causes no pain. Any Surgeon today knows that sudden big injuries are not felt at the time of infliction. Pain comes later when the wound is (septic, and) inflamed. Structures beneath the skin apart from isolated sensory nerve endings are insensitive to the knife.

Apart from the clear Divine laws and orders to us, and the clear physiological and scientific evidence, I would like to mention one golden rule in Islam which, again, fits into the perfection of mercy to every individual animal.

The rule states “Any action or method which will definitely lead to some harm damage or suffering is to be rejected or, any action which can be suspected to lead to a prohibited act is also to be rejected (e.g. eating dead animals or consuming blood etc.). So any method of slaughtering which can give us more blood or a dead animal [before the cut (for slaughtering) is made] is rejected”

Two facts are indisputably established by the above Professor:

a) That a big injury such as throat cutting is not felt at the moment of infliction.b) That the cutting of big arteries in the throat instantly arrests the circulation in the brain and abolishes consciousness.

Prof. Charles Lovett Evans, F.R.C.V.S., has this to say:-

” As anyone who has ever witnessed the act is well aware, the animal lies absolutely still the moment the vessels arc cut, and it is only a minute or so later that asphyxia! convulsions set in. Consciousness we know is lost long before this ” .

” On physiological principles, it is clear that when such large vessels are severed the arterial blood pressure falls at once to a very low level, moreover the carotid arteries being severed, much of the blood supply to the brain is immediately lost and the result is immediate loss of consciousness. To consider that the animal suffers pain is, in my opinion, quite absurd. I consider the method to be equal to any “.

Prof. Leonard Hill says that no death could be more merciful, taking into account that the animal unlike man, has no knowledge or fear of impending death.

 MUSLIMS AND JEWS AND OTHERS BELIEVE THAT PROPER RELIGIOUS SLAUGHTER  CAUSES “NO PAIN”  AND IT IS A MYTH   AND IS WRONG  UNFAIR AND UNJUST TO ACCUSE US OF  BEEN CRUEL TO ANIMALS IN OUR DIRECT METHOD OF RELIGIOUS SLAUGHTER WITHOUT STUNNING!
MORE:
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.
Similarly, there is no single scientific study in the world which proved that stunning surely causes no pain to the animal ?On the contrary, there are scientific medical studies which proved 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 proved 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/Religious  method of animal slaughter has caused any pain or suffering to the  any unstunned animal .In fact it  is a common sense and logic  that if any electricity is applied to the human body of any one of us    it will  cause pain and suffering and sometimes death…However unfortunately our stunned animals can not talk or complaint or protest!
The Farm Animal Welfare Council(FAWC) seems to contradict itself  before 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)
BRITISH MUSLIMS  HAVE GOT ALSO OTHER REASONS TO OPPOSE ANY TYPE OF STUNNING:
 BECAUSE:
-Stunning causes  direct pain and suffering to the animal who can not talk as we said before ..
Stunning can KILL some animals before doing the act of slaughter/Cut…
as by stopping the heart !
 In Islam:  the meat of any animal who dies from any reason  apart from the act of slaughter/cut is not halal and can not be eaten !
-Stunning can weaken the heart  which will  cause reduction in the amount of bleeding out and stunning can causes “SALT AND PEPPER HAEMORRHAGE” : unseen blood staying inside the muscles/meat.
The Consumption of any blood is forbidden in Islam.
Also  medically as we know ,blood if consumed is very harmful to health !
-Electric stunning affects and damages  the natural healthy quality of the meat ,according to some medical studies.
-One type of 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  using it !
-Also in many animals stunned  ,there are:
 Failure of stunning, repeat stunning,  burns, paralysis of the  animal  while is still conscious , broken bones etc..
 All these are cruel and cause pain and suffering to the animals!
FOR ALL THESE REASONS ONE CAN SEE “CLEAR SCIENTIFIC MEDICAL EVIDENCES” AGAINST THE USE OF ANY STUNNING.
We have to emphasize also that :Islam is full of  fascinating  instructions on animal care and welfare during the whole life of the animal and   with special unique humane  instructions at time of slaughter.
(Please see my study/report on animal care and welfare in Islam upon request).
NO DOUBT THE BEST METHOD OF ANIMAL SLAUGHTER SHOULD HAVE  THE FOLLOWING CRITERIA:
  • Allows for draining most of the blood out;
  • Causes no stress to the animal;
  • Does not cause death before the actual slaughter;
  • Found with no fault in any scientific study;
  • Proved to be humane’ , causing no “pain” or suffering or cruelty, even to a few individual animals;
  • Causes no damaging or harmful effects to the quality of the meat;
  • Found to be a sure way of death (reliable);
  • Found to be irreversible (slowly and gradually progressing to death);
  • With only one way of killing (direct method);
  • To be practical  simple and realistic; quick and easy to perform in any society, in any place;

  • ‘Very economical’ (not a lot of machinery and equipment, etc.);
  • Being more familiar to the animal, with less machinery and restraint (with a less threatening atmosphere);
  • Safe to perform (no electricity, gas or shocks, etc.);
  • Accepted by the community consuming the meat; (HALAL)
  • Liked/accepted  by the slaughter man, with no psychological ill-effects on him;
  • Blessed for the believers IN GOD/ ALLAH .

 AMAZINGLY ALL THESE CRITERIA ARE FULFILLED ONLY  IN THE  DIRECT RELIGIOUS METHOD OF SLAUGHTER WITHOUT ANY STUNNING;
WE BRITISH MUSLIMS OPPOSE ALL OR ANY TYPE OF STUNNING OR POST-CUT STUNNING.
THIS IS THE BELIEF OF OVER 30 MILLION MUSLIMS IN WESTERN EUROPE AND  ABOUT 1600 MILLION MUSLIMS IN THE WORLD.
REGARDING LABELLING:
It might be a good idea , as the British Muslim Consumers would  like to eat sure true Halal meat from animals which were not stunned.
But to do that, we like similarly to LABEL  THE MEAT COMING FROM STUNNED ANIMALS
By explaining the method of animal slaughter :Electricity ,gun/bullet , gas etc…
We have to remember also THE STRONG ECONOMICAL REASON  AND BENEFIT FOR BRITAIN IN SUPPLYING THE LOCAL MUSLIM CONSUMERS,  EUROPEAN MUSLIMS AND MANY MUSLIMS IN THE WORLD : TRUE HALAL BLESSED MEAT FROM UNSTUNNED ANIMALS
FINALLY :WE REQUEST THE MPs/ THE GOVERNMENT TO MAINTAIN  AND KEEP THE LAW  ON THE EXEMPTION OF  BRITISH MUSLIMS( & Jews)  FROM USING STUNNING AND TO  ALLOW US  TO KEEP OUR RELIGIOUS AND HUMAN RIGHTS  IN ORDER TO EAT OUR OWN  HALAL PERMITTED MEAT AS IT IS SURELY A HUMANE METHOD OF ANIMAL SLAUGHTER AND  AS THERE IS A GREAT DEMAND  FOR IT FROM THE  BRITISH MUSLIM CONSUMERS(about 3 million, apart from the  Jewish  community  in Britain)
WE LIKE TO  GO FURTHER:
British Muslims would like to recommend to the government and  to DEFRA to consider the DIVINE  RELIGIOUS METHOD OF ANIMAL SLAUGHTER ,without stunning, for HUMANE, HEALTH , SAFETY , CONSUMERS and RELIGIOUS REASONS.
Perhaps Some Muslim and Jewish scientists will organise proper scientific medical studies and meetings together with DEFRA in order to explore and investigate more the Direct Religious method of animal slaughter ,without any stunning.
ENCLOSED SOME  WEBSITES WHICH OPPOSE STUNNING:
 www.halaltayyibmeat.com(my website)
www.halalansa.com
-www.unstunnedhalal.com-www.halalmc.co.uk or www.halalmc.org-www.iccservices.org.uk(regent Park mosque)-www.iccuk.org-www.mcb.org.uk-www.thingsnotsaid.orgJewish website: www.chechitauk.org
Dr A Majid Katme(MBBCH,DPM)
Spokesman: Islamic Medical Association/Uk
Weekly TV Presenter of a Health show.
Tel no: 0044 7944 240 622
Address:
31   North Circular Road   Palmers Green     London  N13 5EG  UK

MUSLIM MEDICAL RESPONSE: THE MYTH OF ANIMAL “CRUELTY” IN RELIGIOUS SLAUGHTER

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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.
Similarly, there is no single scientific study in the world which proved that stunning surely causes no pain to the animal ?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  before 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?
One important scientific fact:
A little  medical knowledge on the anatomy and physiology of the blood vessels in the neck of the animal, the blood supply to the brain(glucose and oxygen),blood pressure   and the pain sensation in the brain  , will show clearly that the proper cut causes sudden huge HAEMORRHAGIC SHOCK: instantaneous “ANAESTHESIA”.. or instantaneous “STUNNING” and irreversible death of the animal  and the direct cut is 100% “PAINLESS”  as the Merciful Creator Has  created and designed  !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 and blessed  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 like circumcision?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!..  Where is the evidence?More,we all from the 3 Abrahamic Faiths,would like to recommend to DEFRA/FAWC/RSPA … and to the new president-elect of the British Veterinary Association  : 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, drowning , electric voltage…) in order to have a proper informed choice!
We Muslims, like to emphasize  that ,we do not intend or  try to force any non Muslim to eat our Holy Humane Halal  healthy meat.
FIFTH:We also like to emphasize , that  in the Islamic holy Scriptures, there are hundreds of orders/statements  on animal care and welfare..
In Islam , we are supposed to offer the best animal care and welfare to the animals during all their lives and from the moment of natural conception of each animal …and not only at time of slaughter!
(please see my published study on Animal care and welfare in Islam)
We do not need any pseudoscientist or an ignorant  misguided animal right campaigner, to teach us …when the foundation for animal rights, care and welfare, were stated clearly in Islam , about 1400 years ago !
In Islam , a person can go to hell if  his/her cat  was starved to death and dies!
Similarly, a person  can go to Heaven for getting water to a thirsty dying dog!
Today ,CRUELTY to all types of  animals is epidemic and endemic  in our farms, homes and abattoirs..?
This is why we have today hundreds of organisations which do  campaign for animal rights and welfare..
These are some of the common CRUELTY to animals in our society:
factory farming/battery cage(day and night cruelty on a large scale), dog and cock fighting , fox hunting ,animal experimentation/Vivisection ,pets abuse at home, pet abandonment, horse racing, animals in circus and in zoos, genetic manipulation ,sterilisation, maternal deprivation   and the routine animal husbandry practices such as ear tagging, tail docking and castration that are acknowledged as being more painful than slaughter without stunning………..
 The RSPCA receive  over 150 000 complaints /year regarding the cruelty and neglect to our innocent animals!
The British Veterinary Association(BVA) have got a LOT OF WORK TO DO in order to prevent the endemic/epidemic suffering  and cruelty  to our innocent animals who are unjustly and badly  treated on a large scale today !
This is the real work for BVA if they  really care  for animal welfare.
One thing  more we like to add:
Unfortunately, the public at large and the media and the MPs and Lords  are NOT AWARE of the many cruelty and suffering to the animals in the abattoirs today:
Kicking  beating and harsh pulling of the animals..
and in stunning: Pain and suffering, failure of stunning, repeat stunning, broken bones, paralysis of the animals etc…
If any one see , for example ,the horrible cruel  stunning of the poultry in hot electric water bath ,when they are hanged upside down in a cruel way….
he/she will never eat any chicken  !
Many Muslim leaders  and  many Jewish leaders  have been  wondering and questioning  over the years ,the motives behind these frequent attacks on our divine HUMANE  religious slaughter: A tenant of our  basic religious belief and practice:
-Is it Islamophobia ,  is it anti-Semitism ?
-Or is  it the AGGRESSIVE SECULARISM?
-Or is it the pressure of the Farm industry?
-Or is it a hidden political agenda?
-Or  is it simply a stupid ignorance with no science in it ?
OR IS IT  ALL OF THESE?
No doubt, these irresponsible frequent attacks on religious slaughter ,which are not based on sciences, merges on INCITEMENT TO RELIGIOUS HATRED and is a good ammunition to the far right: BNP,EDL and others ,to attack in many  different ways ,the proper halal industry ,the Halal shops, the Muslim consumers and the mosques , when the British Muslims  are practicing their faith and what is allowed and legal(Exemption from stunning for both Muslims and Jews) !
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!
SOME OF THE  WEBSITES AGAINST STUNNING:
www.halaltayyibmeat.com
www.halalansa.com
-www.unstunnedhalal.com-www.halalmc.co.uk or www.halalmc.org-www.iccservices.org.uk(regent Park mosque)-www.iccuk.org-www.mcb.org.uk-www.thingsnotsaid.orgJewish website: www.chechitauk.org
  Dr A.Majid Katme(MBBCH,DPM) Spokesman/Medical researcher : Islamic Medical Association/UK
 on  the Halal  Prophetic method of  animal slaughter for  true Halal meat
  Tel: 07944 240 622
 Address:
31 North Circular Road   Palmers Green  London N13 5EG

Order to do DHABH EXACTLY like the Prophet did/Hadith

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HADITH/Saying of the final Prophet Muhammad,peace be upon him. 

Narrated Anas bin Malik:
 
Allah’s Apostle said, “I have been ordered to fight the people till they say: ‘None has the right to be worshiped but Allah.’ And if they say so, pray like our prayers, face our Qibla and slaughter as we slaughter, then their blood and property will be sacred to us and we will not interfere with them except legally and their reckoning will be with Allah.” Narrated Maimun ibn Siyah that he asked Anas bin Malik, “O Abu Hamza! What makes the life and property of a person sacred?” He replied, “Whoever says, ‘None has the right to be worshiped but Allah’, faces our Qibla during the prayers, prays like us and eats our slaughtered animal, then he is a Muslim, and has got the same rights and obligations as other Muslims have.” Ref:Buhkari  Volume 1, Book 8, Number 387:
NO TO ANY TYPE OF STUNNING!
NO TO ANY MECHANICAL SLAUGHTER!

Reasons why Jews oppose mechanical, electrical or other methods of stunning:

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Reasons why Jews oppose mechanical, electrical or other methods of stunning:

  • Shechita must be the only method of slaughter for food animals as laid down in the Torah (Al-Taurat)
  • The animal must be living, viable and undamaged (stunning inflicts damage to the animal which makes the meat non-kosher for Jews (Haram)
  • Stunning introduces another aspect to the slaughter procedure which is forbidden
  • The shechita method automatically renders the animal unconscious (stun) so there is no need to use another stunning method either before or after slaughter
  • With post-cut stunning the process of dying is interfered with, thus it might not be known with certainty what caused the death.

In addition to being an unwarranted interference, the effect of an imposed post-cut stun could prevent the animal from making the involuntary post-mortem reflexes which facilitate exsanguination from the carcase, thereby causing the halachic (Jewish Religious Law) problem of blood being absorbed back into the meat. This would be contrary to religious requirements, since the blood is forbidden to be eaten by Jews.

The sudden impact of stunning can cause the following injuries in an animal: lacerations of the capillaries in the lungs; pathological changes in the central nervous system; a common result is also vertebral fracture.

Stunning of poultry is also forbidden by Jews for the above reasons. Research by Animal Aid has shown that the electrical stunning of poultry causes much suffering, it is impossible to give the correct voltage to each bird on the line resulting in some chickens receiving too little electrical current to render them unconscious, a most painful experience, and other chickens who receive a lethal shock will be dead before slaughter.

 

From a hygiene perspective stunning before slaughter does not allow full bleed-out and blood is retained in the carcase. Since blood putrefies very rapidly harmful bacteria accumulate in the meat fibres which greatly reduces its meat-keeping qualities.

Meat slaughtered by shechita is painless to the animal and healthier for humans,

I hope this has been helpful. Good luck in Bosnia Inshallah

Best regards

Chanoch

 

 

 

Chanoch Kesselman

Executive Coordinator

 

Union of Orthodox Hebrew Congregations

of The United Kingdom and Commonwealth

140 Stamford Hill

London N16 6QT

 

Tel:  020 8802 6226 #218

Fax: 020 8809 6590

email: ck@uohc.co.uk

AUTHENTIC HALAL PROPHETIC  DHABH/ZABIHA

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THE AUTHENTIC HALAL PROPHETIC  DHABH/ZABIHA(animal slaughter) FOR TRUE HALAL MEAT ACCORDING TO THE QUR’AN AND SUNNAH

 

INTRODUCTION

Islam, the final religion to mankind, is a comprehensive full way of life.The holy book Al-Qur’an and the Sunnah(Ahadith/Actions) of the final prophet Muhammad (peace he upon him)  are the two major holy references for every Muslim for all affairs and all issues of life.

The method of DHABH(animal  slaughter) practiced by the Final Prophet Muhammad(Pbuh) was quite clear and shown to the companions (Sahabas) and is well recorded at that time, especially when the Prophet Muhammad(pbuh) did  the Dhabh  by his own gentle caring hands to the animal in front of all. .

It is the same method  which was practiced and adopted by the previous Prophets: Abraham, Moses and Jesus(peace be upon them), the same as done by Prophet Muhammad(PBUH).

It is the same method adopted by all schools of thoughts(the 4 MAZAHIBS…).

The act of Dhabh is sacred and permanent, however  the new technology and the new sciences can be used to facilitate more this holy act of animal slaughter or to  give better welfare to the animals.

Not only that but the Prophet Muhammad(pbuh) has warned us before in a clear Hadith that he will FIGHT all those who do not do DHABH(animal slaughter) like him.

 

THE HADITH:

Narrated by Anas bin Malik(RDA):ALLAH’s Messenger(peace be upon him) said:

“I HAVE BEEN ORDERED TO FIGHT THE PEOPLE TILL ………… SLAUGHTER  AS WE SLAUGHTER,…..”

(Bukhari,vol 1,book 8,the Book of As-salat,hadith number 392)

Surely, the use of stunning today or the machine for animal slaughter is different than the HUMANE method practiced by the merciful Prophet Muhammad(pbuh).

All these torture techniques(stunning) were invented by the non Muslims in the west, not for humane reasons as they claim?

According to many medical researches stunning has been found to cause:

-Pain and cruelty to the animal(Islam prohibits that)

-Death of some animals,by stopping the heart , especially poultry before doing the cut(Mitah and is haram to eat in the Qur’an)

-Less bleeding out by weakening the heart beats  and by causing internal haemorrhage inside the small blood vessel which are inside the meat and can not be seen called in the west: “SALT AND PEPPER HAEMORRHAGE”.

Blood here is consumed by the Muslim and blood is haram to consume as mentioned in the Qur’an and blood is a big health hazards medically?

-Risk to BSE/Mad cow disease in the cow/beef

-Disrupting and changing the natural healthy chemical ingredients of the meat which make it not Tayyib or natural and harmful to health.

Many Muslims do not know that to do DHABH(animal slaughter) without the use of any stunning is LEGAL in this country for both: Muslims and Jews.

The Jewish community do follow the law of the land and avoid the use of stunning completely, but our Muslim companies and most Halal shops do follow the non Muslims in their animal slaughter and use different types of stunning?

THEY ARE BETRAYING:ISLAM,PROPHET MUHAMMAD(pbuh) , THE MUSLIM CONSUMERS  AND THE LAW OF THE LAND …BY PUTTING THE LABEL ?HALAL? ON THEIR MEAT AND POULTRY WHICH CAME FROM STUNNED ANIMALS???

(Please see my medical research/study on STUNNING and the Prophetic method of DHABH by going to the website of AL AZHAR in Cairo:

http://www.azhar.jp/info/halal-eng/halal5.html – 131k   )

 

THE MUSLIM SLAUGHTERMAN

 

       * To be a  practicing Muslim

  • Well Educated on the Prophetic method of  DHABH(animal slaughter)
  • Trained in hygiene  laws and regulations, anatomy and  physiology of the neck and  to be certified and licensed to perform Prophetic Halal animal  slaughter(DHABH)
  • All Halal  DHABH/Zabiha to take place in licensed slaughterhouses which meet the Islamic criteria and the government’s  and EU regulations.

 

THE ANIMAL :

The animal should be permissible/halal and legal  to eat by meeting the strict criteria set by Islam which will clearly includes:

* The animal be healthy

  • Fed  and grown on a healthy, natural vegetarian , organic/Tayyib  “Halal” diet which should be free from animal proteins, porcine substances , filth/excreta or GM foods (genetically modified foods).
  • At time of Dhabh, the animal has to be fully alive, fully conscious and  able to hear, and not stressed at all(but relaxed and calm).
  • It should be fed and given water before Dhabh.
  • The knife must not be sharpened in  front of the animal
  • The Animal must NOT witness the slaughter of another animal
  • The animal should be manually handled(HAND SLAUGHTER) gently , refraining from any type of machine slaughter and no kicking or beating or sticking to the animal before slaughter

THE INTENTION (Niyyah)

 

 Is to obey ALLAH,  practice Prophet Muhammad’s method of Dhabh and eat Halal Tayyib meat  in order to feed ourselves,get healthy, stay alive  and in order to feed the poor and needy people.Before we do Dhabh, we are asking the permission of ALLAH to do this act of animal slaughter or killing . Halal Dhabh and Halal meat is one way to worship ALLAH and is a spiritual  and a  rewarding act .One should THANK ALLAH for allowing us to have this  highly nutritious food.

 

 

THE AUTHENTIC RECORDED  PROPHETIC METHOD OF DHABH:

-By holding the animal in a comfortable calm position, without causing  any stress or excitement

-It is advisable for the animal to face QIBLAH(Makkah)-By cutting the throat in the neck : by one swift/cut and  by using a very sharp, very clean and long knife-While mentioning TASMIAH(bismillah, ALLAH Akbar)/in the Name of ALLAH, ALLAH is greater).-Making sure to cut: The major blood vessels(Carotids and Jugulars),the Oesophagus, the Trachea but without cutting the Spinal cordWithout the use of any stunning technique(Torture techniques),before or after the cut-Then  the animal  to be left to die peacefully(physiological death), naturally and  without any interference or handling till he/she becomes completely MOTIONLESS.

 

UNFORTUNATELY MOST  ?HALAL? MUSLIM COMPANIES/ABATTOIRS/HALAL SHOPS/RESTAURANTS ARE NOT FOLLOWING THE LEGAL  PROPHET MUHAMMAD(pbuh)  IN HIS HUMANE SAFE  HEALTHY BLESSED METHOD OF DHABH(animal slaughter)

PARTLY DUE TO IGNORANCE BUT MOSTLY DUE TO GREED AND FINANCIAL REASONS???

THE OTHER SERIOUS  AND NEGLECTED ISLAMIC  ISSUE IS THE ABSCENCE OF TAYYIB(natural/wholesome  organic,healthy) ANIMAL AND MEAT AND POULTRY  IN ALMOST ALL MEAT/POULTRY ON THE MARKET IN HALAL SHOPS AND RESTAURANTS???

MORE:

MORE AND MORE  TO WORRY ABOUT: OUR SO CALLED HALAL MEAT  CHICKENS  AND  HALAL FOODS  ARE FOUND TO BE CONTAMINATED WITH PORK???

Dr A Majid Katme(MBBCH,DPM)

Spokesman: Islamic medical Association/UK on HALAL DHABH and HALAL MEAT

Medical researcher on the Prophetic method of Dhabh

Weekly TV broadcaster

Website(Partly done):

www.halaltayyibmeat.com