The best method of animal slaughter for true HALAL TAYYIB meat should have the following criteria:
- Allows for draining most of the blood out;
- Causes no stress to the animal;
- Allows the animal to hear the Name of ALLAH(Tasmiah) before death
- 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 or injuries to the animal and 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 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 and wanted by the community consuming the meat;
- Practiced by the final prophet Muhammad(pbuh) and by all the Prophets of ALLAH (same method)
- Blessed for the believers by ALLAH (s.w.t).
THESE CRITERIA OCCUR ONLY WITH THE HUMANE PROPHETIC METHOD OF DHABH WITHOUT ANY STUNNING
DR ABDUL MAJID KATME
NB: This brief was published in my published scientific medical study on Stunning