(May 19, 2015 at 10:55 am)Pandæmonium Wrote: Make sure it's halal!
On a serious note, for the first time ever I asked in restaurant whether their meat was halal/kosher. It wasn't, but if it was I wouldn't have eaten it. I'm 100% against it, and would otherwise be illegal in the UK had it not been given a religious exemption. I'm not squeamish about slaughter (I'll gut a carcass if I need to), but it is inhumane compared to stunning prior to the kill.
I dislike it when I speak to people who try to defend it as better than stunning. I accept that stunning is not perfect and never will be, but cutting the throat of an animal and letting the blood drain whilst uttering some mumbo jumbo over it for no good reason (not exactly like you're hunting to survive) is just fucking psychopathic in my eyes.
A lot like when I hear Sikhs try and defend how wearing a turban gives them just as much protection from falling objects on a building site than even the most basic PPE. Idiots. Cognitive dissonance if I ever saw it.
There's actually a sikh biker gang in Australia that have a religious exemption on wearing helmets because apparently their turbans provide as much protection. I saw this on reddit and got downvoted to oblivion when I questioned it.
But yeah, I think the current methods of killing in abattoirs aren't great and I've seen some pretty horrific things happen in them, but it's something people have to deal with. It needs to be improved IMO and more needs to be done for animal welfare, but even in comparison to qurbani, stunning an animal prior to killing it seems like a better way of doing it.
Having said that, there's no pleasant way of efficiently killing millions of animals year on year to feed the people of the world. What're you gonna do? Stop killing them?
Good luck with that notion.
