(July 6, 2011 at 3:45 pm)BloodyHeretic Wrote: 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?
I agree with you, that this method of slaughtering is not the best way to minimize the suffering, but that's where you can draw the line between religious ethics and secular ethics.
