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UK ULAMAS/SCHOLARS REJECT MECHANICAL SLAUGHTER AND OPPOSE STUNNING(HMC)

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MUFTIS/ULAMAS IN BRITAIN OPPOSE MECHANICAL SLAUGHTER AND STUNNING

Halal Monitoring Committee (HMC) has organised in 2009 an independent online survey regarding Mechanical slaughter and stunning.

Responses were received from 282 Imams (including 32 Muftis) from over 25 towns and cities in the UK

This is the result of the survey/responses:

 

95% of the Ulama do not accept “mechanical slaughter”(stunned) as an accepted method of Halal

slaughter in Islam (2.1% want to understand the issue further)

 

99.7% stated that Bismillah(Tasmiah) should be prayed individually by person slaughtering (not taped

or person standing on the side)

 

90% rejected electrical stunning of chickens (9% welcomed further research)

85% rejected electrical stunning of larger animals (9% welcomed further research)

99% expressed preference for non-stunned

100% saw the need for the continuation of religious exemption  in the UK which allows Muslims and Jews to practice their religious beliefs (prophetic method of slaughte/Zabiha) and without the use of any type of stunning.

 

REF:

Published in HMC newsletter No. 13 available athttp://www.halalmc.net/newsletters/issue13.pdf

-Today we have a lot of FATAWAS against stunning

-The fact is: When you explain to Muftis and Ulamas the effects of stunning on the animal/meat ,they all oppose it…we badly need EDUCATION to Muftis and Ulamas all over the world !

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

TV recording on Religious slaughter on Iqra TV/ 19 Febr/15 in London

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Contributors: -Dr Shuja Shafi(Muslim Council of Britain)-Shaikh Yunus Didhwala(Halal Monitoring Committee)-Mohammad Amin(The  founder of the Petition)-Imam Abdul Qayyum(East London Mosque)-Muhammad Salim(Unstunned Halal)-Abu Eesa-Mukhtar Ahmed (National Halal)

Dear brothers,

 Please see below the programme “Halal Meat History or Reality

 Part 1 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mn4nVZ63ZeQ&feature=youtu.be

 Part 2 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRX9sLeFDx0&feature=youtu.be

 Part 3 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErGE6zS0R8A&feature=youtu.be

Kind regards & many thanks, 

AbdusSamad 

Producer

MEDIA RELEASE 15 June 2015- RAMADAN IS THE MONTH TO MAKE SURE WE ARE EATING TRUE HALAL TAYYIB MEAT !

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MEDIA RELEASE                                                              15 June 2015

RAMADAN IS THE MONTH TO  MAKE SURE WE ARE EATING  TRUE HALAL TAYYIB MEAT  COMING FROM TRUE HALAL DHABH/ZABIHA
(Prophetic method) WITHOUT THE USE OF ANY STUNNINGWHY ISLAM AND MUSLIMS OPPOSE ANY TYPE OF STUNNING OF THE ANIMAL IN ISLAMIC RELIGIOUS SLAUGHTER?ISLAM ORDERS US TO DO HALAL DHABH/ZABIHA(Prophetic method)  FOR TRUE HALAL TAYYIB MEAT  without the use of any stunning!
 
THE NEW INVENTED STUNNING TECHNIQUES(torture techniques) USED BY THE NON MUSLIMS IN THE WEST BEFORE ANIMAL SLAUGHTER:
-Electrified water bath for poultry/chickens(Electrocution)
-Captive bolt pistol(gun) for the cows
-Electrocution applied to the heads of the sheep
Unfortunately ,most halal  muslim business companies  in the UK , are adopting these cruel harmful torture techniques , which can lead to many Haram outcomes , despite been allowed to do  our own Dhabh/Zabiha as Muslims ,without the use of stunning ,  and as stated in the British law!
IT IS LEGAL TO DO OUR ISLAMIC RELIGIOUS ANIMAL SLAUGHTER WITHOUT STUNNING!
Most halal shops and halal restaurants sell and provide THIS “NON HALAL” NON TAYYIB MEAT
in the name of HALAL? …THE BIGGEST CHEAT TO MUSLIMS!
WHY ISLAM AND MUSLIMS OPPOSE ANY TYPE OF STUNNING OF THE ANIMAL IN THE  ISLAMIC RELIGIOUS SLAUGHTER?
-Medical studies (EEG studies/Electric recording of the brain)( & common sense) have shown the CRUELTY and the PAIN and   suffering to the animal do occur if  the animal is stunned?
-Medical physiological knowledge about the effects of the cut/Dhabh on the animal(blood vessels/blood/brain sensation)  have proved that it is “PAINLESS”  
This is explained easily by understanding the physiology of the act of the Zabiha/cut and the effects on the brain/blood pressure/sensation..(a little medical knowledge will help)
MANY MUHARRAMAT(Forbidden) DO RESULT FROM STUNNING:-Stunning have been found to KILL some animals especially the poultry(about 33%-40% before Dhabh)/according to FAWC(Farm Animal Welfare Council) .This is MITAH (Dead animal before Dhabh)and is  haram to eat.(unfortunately dead with non dead animals from stunning are all mixed together?)-Stunning causes  WEAKENING OF THE HEART and less bleeding out  inside the meat?So Muslims are consuming BLOOD (Damm)which is forbidden in Islam and very unhealthy too.
According to medical studies:
The electricity of stunning do cause the rupture of the small blood vessels/capillaries INSIDE THE MEAT , called scientifically: “SALT AND PEPPER HAEMORRHAGE” so  the blood( which is unseen and inside the meat ) is consumed with the meat.???-Stunning makes the meat NOT TAYYIB/NOT NATURAL/NOT WHOLESOME , as it disrupts the natural chemical formula/ingredients of the meat which is  normally healthy to eat 
If the animal was not  stunned.-Captive Bolt pistol to stun the cows have been found to spread BSE/Mad cow disease Many states in the US  have stopped using it-Scientific medical studies have shown the importance of hearing the Name of ALLAH(Tasmiah) at time of Dhabh  by the animal who should be fully conscious and fully hearing .It was found that TASMIAH acts like tranquilliser/sedative to both: the animal and the slaughtermanand PURIFY the meat from germs/bacteria !(Many videos are available)In stunning: the animal is unconscious and can not hear.???-Almost all   Muftis Muslim  scholars and Ulamas have given the FATAWAS against  the use of stunning,  in a poll done by  Halal Monitoring Committee (HMC ) in the UK: at least about 90% of Muftis/Ulamas and scholars  in the UK opposed stunning)-Stunning of the poultry is clearly prohibited in the Qur’an, when the heads of the innocent chickens are forcibly immersed in electrified  water bath???Some chickens will die from STRANGULATION( MUNQUANIQAH )/drowning  which is mentioned in the Qur’an.
The government’s  figures before: 33% of chickens die in stunning and before doing the cut
(now it is 41%)  ?.-The OFFICIAL MUSLIM VIEW IN BRITAIN, Like the Muslim Council of Britain and hundreds of Muslim organisations and mosques…  TRUE HALAL MEAT IS THE ONE WHICH CAME FROM UNSTUNNED ANIMALS( Through PROPHETIC method of Dhabh/Religious slaughter)-Dhabh without stunning is LEGAL in Britain and we Muslims(as well as the Jews) have been given exemption from using stunning(WE ARE LUCKY TO HAVE THIS LAW AND FACILITY HERE IN BRITAIN but unfortunately many muslim businessmen/companies  have insisted on stunning  and their meat/chickens are in almost most halal shops and Muslim  restaurants )
 -Many HEALTH HAZARDS have been found in stunned animals:Consumption of blood,BSE/Mad Cow disease ,  not Tayyib meat ,unhealthy meat etc…
Besides, the animals going for stunning in the abattoirs suffer  today from a lot of STRESS/ANXIETY AND FEAR….which was found medically to give us “poisonous”  unhealthy meat!
-The same method of DHABH/Zabiha  was practiced by all Prophets of ALLAH : Abraham/Moses/Jesus and Muhammad(peace be upon them)…The same HUMANE method.
Jesus peace be upon him, ate only KOSHER/HALAL meat( from unstunned animal)
We are with all technology,animal welfare,hygiene and regulations ..but the ACT OF Religious slaughter/ZABIHA is holy/divine  and fixed permanently for all times and no one have the right to change it/interfere with it or adopt any western  un-islamic method of animal slaughter.-Alhamdulillah the Muslim consumers  in Britain/Europe/abroad have waken up to the importance of eating true halal meat without  the use of stunning(MORE MUSLIM CONSUMERS DEMANDING IT) ,as shown in the National licensing/stamping of unstunned animals by the organisation:
Halal Monitoring Committee(HMC): Website: www.halalmc.org
-More important , the final prophet Muhammad(peace be upon him) has said in an authentic Hadith/saying :Narrated by Anas Bib Malik:
Allah’s Apostle said, “I have been ordered to fight the people till they ………………. “and slaughter as we slaughter”/Zabiha, then their blood and property will be sacred to us….
At the end of the Hadith ,The prophet  Muhammad(pbuh)  mentioned  that THE MUSLIM is the one who  prays  like us and eats  our Zabiha”(unstunned meat)
 Ref: Sahih Al Bukhari 1:8:387
 
ALL TYPES OF STUNNING SHOULD BE OPPOSED FOR A LOT OF REASONS:
-Humane / animal welfare reasons
-Health reasons
-Economic reasons(more demands today for unstunned meat/Barakah)
-Consumers reasons/demands
-Religious reasons/demands 
-Safety reasons(no electricity/no bullets/no pistol…)
-Practicality/simplicity reasons…Can be done easily without too many equipments
– And Legal reasons according to the law in Britain: Is LEGAL for Muslims to do their religious slaughter for Halal meat without stunning.
ALL MUSLIMS SHOULD FEAR ALLAH ESPECIALLY IN RAMADAN AND TRY TO MAKE SURE THEY ARE EATING AND FEEDING THEIR INNOCENT CHILDREN/FAMILIES TRUE HALAL TAYYIB MEAT
COMING FROM UNSTUNNED ANIMALS.
It is DOUBLY SINFUL  and  some meat are HARAM (dead before Dhabh/Blood inside …)
 
 SOME WEBSITES AGAINST STUNNING:
 –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.org-Jewish website: www.chechitauk.org           
 We like to request to all the Muslims especially in this blessed month of Ramadan
TO CHECK/DOUBLE CHECK they are really eating TRUE HALAL MEAT from unstunned animals
(Prophetic method of Dhabh/Zabiha).
You can find out easily the places of Halal  meat shops and halal meat restaurants by going
to the website of Halal Monitoring Committee(HMC) which is based in Leicester:
Just look on the front of the certified  halal shops/restaurants ,you will see a yellow POSTER: HMC: HALAL MONITORING COMMITTEE
But be aware that some Halal meat shops/restaurants  do CHEAT after having a license from HMC and buy cheap non halal meat and chicken and mix it with the  Halal ones?
Sometimes some Halal shops(not licensed by HMC) sell  true halal meat    after they themselves slaughtered their   animals without stunning.
WE HUMBLY APPEAL TO ALL MOSQUES IN BRITAIN/ABROAD TO OFFER ONLY TRUE HALAL TAYYIB MEAT(from unstunned animals) FOR IFTAR/WEDDING/AQIQAH etc…
FINALLY WE BADLY NEED TODAY TRUE TAYYIB MEAT AND HALAL (  organic/wholesome) coming from natural organic farms.
Tayyib is the second requirement after Halal for meat to consume by the Muslims.
Non Muslims are moving more to organic farms(Tayyib)  for health reasons
UNFORTUNATELY ALMOST ALL MUSLIMS (Halal shops/restaurants) HAVE NEGLECTED THIS BASIC ISLAMIC REQUIREMENT: TAYYIB   TAYYIB  TAYYIB meat.
There is one Muslim organic farm close to London which do not stun  the animals and have free range animals/chicken(Tayyib)  : ZUSS FARM
Go to their website: www.freerangehalalmeat.co.uk
We have  all to remember at the end:
ALL MUSLIMS ARE REQUESTED TOO TO:
-Consume  only   Halal foods and Drinks
-Have Halal housing
-Have Halal finance
– Have Halal  relationship
-Have  Halal medicine
………….
 Dr Abdul Majid Katme(MBBCH,DPM) Spokesman :Islamic Medical Association/UK on HALAL ZABIHA / Halal meatMedical/health Researcher on the Prophetic method of Dhabh and stunningWeekly TV Presenter of an Islamic Health show in London on IQRA BANGLA
Weekly Radio broadcaster on an International Muslim radio(Channel Islam International/CII)
 
-Please see my Website: www.halaltayyibmeat.com
-My published medical study on stunning on AL AZHAR website:
A GOOD REFERENCE IN THE UK:The famous book by Dr Ghulam M Khan (Founder/Ex-President of the Islamic Medical Association/UK) who has died recently(May ALLAH bless his soul and grant him Jannah…ameen
He was the first man to tell all Muslims in the UK/world  about True Halal Dhabh/for true Tayyib Halal meat:
The book is called: DHABH : Slaying Animals  ..the Islamic way
 
My  tel no: 07944 240 622
 
NB: I am available for  talks/interview(tv/radio…)
 
 PLEASE SPREAD THIS IMPORTANT MESSAGE IN RAMADAN  WIDELY
SEND IT TO ALL MUSLIM CONTACTS

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