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Avoiding Halal slaughter plants

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 157 ✭✭jwof2006


    This is the fear a bad bleed out and an animal with a severed neck in agony and scared, this would not be an isolated case in a slaughter plant killing 400 a day via non-stun halal slaughter. It would happen, no matter how many times people say the knife is very sharp.

    Animal Welfare has to be number one and religious stuff 2.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 621 ✭✭✭G-Man


    … Damn, I thought it was some rare case, but you are right its not..

    So Halal Doesnt work and then resort to another method.. Isnt this just some weird trial.. Now I can see why people have valid objections.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,432 ✭✭✭SupaCat95


    That is only a small part of it. Its about the Jizya or tax is the real deal, its on all foods, not just meat.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,331 ✭✭✭Jacovs


    Only so many times you can explain something, but if someone has an agenda then it wont matter how many times you explain it, or how much proof you give, they will push that same agenda and ignore everything else. And judging by the posts that are getting thanked on this thread, its not just 1 "person" pushing this agenda either.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,520 ✭✭✭Sheep breeder


    Not all animals on day or every day are killed Halal, it’s only the number required for a customer on the day. I know this doesn’t suit your agenda.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 157 ✭✭jwof2006


    Perhaps in sheep factories, but certain beef factories are halal day in day out. Regardless it shouldn't be a lotto as to which animal get to be killed with welfare safeguards in place versus not in place.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 157 ✭✭jwof2006


    What proof have you given or explaining have you done apart from confusing things?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 157 ✭✭jwof2006


    If the so called agenda I am pushing is "better animal welfare", then that is one I am okay to be associated with...



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 11,717 ✭✭✭✭John_Rambo


    You’re demanding others name and shame, yet you say you know exactly who’s killing unethically. Are you going to name and shame them?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,632 ✭✭✭Yeah Right


    Which beef factories?

    If you know where they are, and you want to highlight them so others can boycott them, then why are you not letting everyone know which ones they are?



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,632 ✭✭✭Yeah Right


    all meat plants practicing halal should be made to declare it publicly

    Genuine question:

    Surely the whole point of Halal slaughter is to cater for the niche market where this practice is desired/required. Why would anyone be doing this in secret, then, if the point is to let everyone know that your meat meets those criteria? Why would they be hiding it, if it's required for the meat to be certified halal? It doesn't make any sense. It's like growing your crops organically but then not putting "organic" on the packaging.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,331 ✭✭✭Jacovs


    Just to reiterate for 1 last time, stunning is allowed for Halal meat. So if the intention of this thread is to discuss abattoirs who dont stun animals before killing them, then Halal doesnt come into the discussion. There could be non-Halal abattoirs who also dont stun, day in and day out. An abattoir being "Halal day in and day out" doesnt factor into it at all. If you have an issue with meat being Halal, that might be better off being discussed in the religion forum. But if its to do with the actual process of killing the animal, then Halal doesnt factor into it. Any abattoir, Halal or not, who dont stun the animals first are doing it (not doing it) for other reasons, usually money.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 157 ✭✭jwof2006


    Not true.

    EU law forbids slaughter without stunning with an exemption for religious sacrificial slaughter i.e-Kosher , Halal. There is no regular day to day slaughterhouse slaughtering without stunning.

    There is no Kosher slaughter in Ireland. As we have already discussed some Halal slaughter seems to allow for pre-stunning. But there are Halal plants that don't.

    As with your previous posts the screenshot you shared directly contradicts what you are saying in the post. It says if stunning kills the animal before their neck is cut it is not allowed. This might come as news to you but penetrative captive bolt(the method used to stun an animal of that size) could kill the animal, so wouldn't be considered strictly Halal. Hence why the more extreme Halal slaughterhouses don't seem to permit. DAFM needs to clamp down on them , as have authorities in other countries.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 157 ✭✭jwof2006


    It is not in secret but it is not made clear to the farmers. Or to consumers for that matter. They can declare it as Halal for the markets that want it , but they don't have to declare it as Halal for markets that would not want it. This is a whole other matter that has been raised above, and perhaps is more an issue of marketing standards than the core issue being discussed animal welfare at slaughter.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 157 ✭✭jwof2006


    Sher I named the plant that I know of in the first post?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,331 ✭✭✭Jacovs


    Law also says you arent allowed drive 80 in a 60 zone…

    I dont think anyone here can give you the answers that you seem to already have.

    Maybe call or email them directly yourself? Ask them which abattoirs are Halal certified then you can just avoid all of them altogether.

    https://halalcertification.ie/certifications/halal-certification-of-slaughterhouses-abattoirs/



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 157 ✭✭jwof2006


    Alright pal, thanks for all the inputs anyway. Were very helpful...



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,662 ✭✭✭tabby aspreme


    Farmers concerned about halal slaughter is not a new issue, 30-40 years ago I remember farmers inquiring from factory agents what days and times halal would be the slaughter method and ensuring their cattle were not brought to the factory on those days.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 944 ✭✭✭GNWoodd


    “Only the number of animals required is done that way “ That statement is incorrect in so many ways :

    The hind quarters of the animals killed Halal go into the non R/S food chain as the Muslims prefer the fore quarters

    Most UK public services - schools , jails etc now use 100 per cent Halal , such is the demand . A significant percentage of abattoirs in the UK are now owned and operated by Muslims.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 944 ✭✭✭GNWoodd


    Not the case . The plant I mentioned upthread kills Halal Non Stun all the time . They even confirmed it when I asked some time ago .



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 944 ✭✭✭GNWoodd


    First time I ever heard the phrase Halal was on a RTE TV report on the issue about forty years ago. I think the footage may have been of cows being killed in Ballyhaunis . Horrifying .

    Yet here we are forty years later and it still hasn’t been banned



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,875 ✭✭✭Anto_Meath


    Years ago I work in a sheep factory (now closed) Halal used to kill for a few hours a day. Any sheep they killed the front legs would be left straight. In the loading bay we would be straightening out legs of stunned lambs and sending them off on the lorry for them.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,520 ✭✭✭Sheep breeder




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,520 ✭✭✭Sheep breeder


    That was a small plant specifically in Halal and not doing large numbers and now is closed. Don’t know of any of the large plants killing Halal completely. I bow to your knowledge as to what happens in factories and I only know what happened when I worked on beef and lamb lines in factories over a number of years and have family members still working in a factory to this day.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,432 ✭✭✭SupaCat95


    That is not going to happen.......ever. There are men with a lot of money invested here, some openly some discretely. This money is in education, horse breeding, hotels etc etc from the Islamic world. This is going back to the days of the Aga Khan getting involed with the Kildare national stud.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,875 ✭✭✭Anto_Meath


    @Sheep breeder yes it would have been around there alright..



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 11,717 ✭✭✭✭John_Rambo


    Maybe you claimed plural or multiple: “I know for a fact that there a slaughterhouses that do not stun” Unless that was a typo, which is fair enough, you say "a slaughterhouses", apologies if this is the case!

    I have seen both methods. I would consider both of them unpleasant, but that is the reality of meat production. I am not livestock, I am human. Calling for Irish cattle to avoid non stunned slaughter in practice means undermining or closing live exports to North Africa. That is a serious economic consequence for the beef sector.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,772 ✭✭✭148multi


    If you have a genuine unbiased reason for posting here please read the attached scientific research.

    I have seen both cattle and sheep slaughtered by the halal method and never seen anything illegal about the process, it is possible to slaughter by halal method and stun the animal as well, it is just some people's inflexible thought process that they this is not possible or can not realise that it's possible.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 621 ✭✭✭G-Man


    As well as beef imports, the lash out at BB labels and now influencers questioning irish food abroad, I suspect this halal issue might become divisive in farming and consumer and cause issues with IFA beef comitte migt not appreciate



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 944 ✭✭✭GNWoodd


    I see that Kosher / Halal slaughter is making headlines in the UK again with appalling cruelty uncovered by animal welfare activists in a cow slaughterhouse in Manchester.
    Time for non stun killing to be banned here .



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