Slaughtering and butchering animals is always a messy business. I know, I've worked in an abattoir. The less suffering the animal goes through, the better. Halal is definitely not the best way to minimise an animals suffering, and where there's a choice about how to slaughter an animal, choosing to make it suffer more than it has to is highly unethical. Then again, muslims don't have much of a reputation for modern ethics now do they?
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"Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds."
Einstein
When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down happy. They told me I didn't understand the assignment. I told them they didn't understand life.
- John Lennon
