Avoiding Halal slaughter plants

Why not just avoid the animal suffering completely by NOT slaughtering them at all - tackle the root of the problem

Should change thread title to "Avoiding unethical slaughter plants" if that is the direction the discussion should be taking.

Most farmers would want to know if their animals were being religiously slaughtered .

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/slaughterhouse-abattoir-sheep-meat-halal-warwickshire-b2705241.html

Slaughterhouse staff played wolf sounds to sheep and ‘inflicted immense pain, fear and distress’

Halal abattoir staff slammed sheep hard onto concrete floors and played recordings of wolves to the terrified animals as they were dying, footage reveals.

In a string of acts captured by hidden cameras, workers also breached animal welfare laws in ways that an academic said would have inflicted “immense pain, fear and distress”.

Sheep were inadequately killed, showing signs of life and suffering for up to four minutes after their throats were cut and when workers started dismembering them, an expert’s report says.

A mechanical restrainer of sheep for slaughter appeared ineffective, so many sheep escaped after their throats had been cut, according to Jenny L Mace, an associate lecturer in animal welfare and ethics at the University of Winchester.

Her report details how abattoir workers moved, hoisted and started to dismember sheep that were still conscious, with some animals showing signs of life more than two minutes after their throats were cut and even when workers had started to cut their legs off.

Depends who you ask, I guess. But a quick google tells me about 25% of the global population identifies as vegan/vegetarian, so im going to say the majority feels it is acceptable to slaughter animals for food. Once you get past that point you then split into ethical or unethical slaughtering.

As for the article above, did it just happen to be pricks working at a Halal abattoir, or is it because the abattoir is Halal, that they treated the animals that way? Im going to guess option A, they were just pricks.

Have seen it done lots of times, animal into shooting box head out and chin bar up in a instant and cut with a very very sharp knife like a sword, chin bar let down animal back and crate rolls open out to the ground leg in the air and up on the line. All done at speed.

This was a good film

" Halal slaughter (Dhabihah) is strictly for religious reasons, as it's a method prescribed by Islamic law (Sharia) for preparing permissible (halal) meat, requiring invocation of God's name and a swift, deep throat cut to ensure rapid blood drainage, which is considered hygienic and ritually clean. It's a core part of Muslim religious life, ensuring meat is lawful for consumption, and involves specific conditions like a Muslim or People of the Book performing the act, and proper animal welfare. "

From;

Religious slaughter: A current controversial animal welfare issue | Animal Frontiers | Oxford Academic

Joe must be lurking in the background here as a researcher in his spare time.