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Islamic Views on Cruelty to Animals during Transport & Slaughter

Islamic Views on Cruelty to Animals during Transport & Slaughter

This well written paper for the OIE World Organisation for Animal Health suggests measures to improve the transportation and slaughtering of animals for Halal.

A perspective on Halal and shechita slaughter

Judaism is clear that the animal must not be stunned before it is killed. Amongst Muslims, some consider pre-stunning to be permissible while others regard it as prohibited.

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Its final: Dutch outlaws Halal and Kosher slaughter

The Dutch parliament voted Tuesday to ban ritual slaughter of animals, a move strongly opposed by the country’s Muslim and Jewish minorities.

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Australia pushing for stunning use in Indonesia "to safeguard its animals"

After the recent Indonesian cattle fiasco, the Meat & Livestock Australia would insist that Indonesia adopts stunning before slaughter, although OIE standards did not require them.

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AFIC proposes Halal Centre to solve animal-butcher dilemma

Amid uproar over ritual slaughter, Australia’s highest Muslim body has called for establishing a halal center to help solve the animal-butcher dilemma

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Halal and Kosher ban a political agenda, not about animal welfare – Regenstein

A Cornell University professor said Holland’s ban on religious slaughter has nothing to do with animal welfare but a political agenda by Islamophobic politicians using animal welfare community.

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Dutch parliament set to axe religious slaughter

The Dutch parliament is preparing to pass a law that would end unstunned religious slaughters, effectively banning kosher and halal slaughter in the Netherlands.

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Australia bans cattle supply to Indonesia over abuse controversy

Australia has moved to ban 11 Indonesian abattoirs from importing their live cattle after footages of mistreatment and abuse prior to Halal slaughter surfaced late last week.

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Dutch Halal group taking Animal Rights Party to court

Marianne Thieme and her Animal Rights Party, which is now working with Geert Wilders and the PPV to push for a law that bans Halal and kosher meat in the Netherlands, is expected to be hauled to courts for spreading misleading information.

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Is machine-slaughtered meat Halal?

Muslims in the UK are divided over chickens slaughtered using machines, or Blessed Blade, with a survey of Shariah scholars revealed many are against the mechanised procedure.

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Halal Hysteria – The Case Against Stunning

There is in fact a significant body of independent scientific evidence that have been conveniently ignored which shows that the alleged humaneness of stunning is a grey issue indeed.

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A Queens slaughterhouse with the strictest Shariah interpretation

Madani Halal slaughters their meats “by the strictest interpretation of Islamic law,” which means it must be Halal, all of the animals must be humanely treated, and humanely slaughtered.

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The symbolism of the Festival of Sacrifice

At the end of the Hajj, Muslims throughout the world celebrate Eid al-Adha or the Festival of Sacrifice, to commemorate the trials and triumphs of Prophet Abraham by slaughtering an animal.

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