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Thread #132248 Message #2998706
Posted By: Paul Burke
03-Oct-10 - 10:55 AM
Thread Name: BS: Halal Meat on sale in the UK
Subject: RE: BS: Halal Meat on sale in the UK
as much as the Catholic religion should look deep inside its soul over various matters within its' religion.
Now far be it from me to defend a religion, but I know of nothing in the Catholic religion which in any way worse than others.
Tell me, if the Koran, the Torah, or the Bible stated that all children under 5, born on a Wednesday, at full moon, should have their throats cut, then be left to die, slowly and in dire pain until all blood has dripped out of them, as a sacrifice to the Gods,
I doubt if it would make much difference if they stunned them first either; the argument is not about killing all animals, it's about how you kill them. And I think that's been comprehensively answered- both halal and kosher rules accept the stunning of animals before they are killed.
If you want pain and fear free food, with dignity, stop eating meat, and accept the other consequences of that decision.
If it's merely about information, talk about all the other things we aren't allowed to know about meat, and food in general. Where it's from, how it was treated from birth to death, what it was fed on, what medication it has received, its genetic lineage, how its relationship with its parent and/ or offspring was respected, its shelter, freedom to roam, how far it had to travel from its familiar environment to its place of slaughter, what the travelling conditions were, its treatment around the time of slaughter, the hygienic conditions in the abattoir, the conditions under which the meat was kept and for how long. The list can easily go on, but we are not allowed to know many of these things, and we have virtually no way of knowing if the information given is accurate.
Merely to concentrate on one, divisive, aspect of animal welfare reeks of special pleading.