Found this online:
This is a statement by the animal welfare group Royals Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals based on reseach by Farm Animal Welfare Committee (FAWC)
It presents a lot of the research that animals do indeed feel significant pain for as long as two minutes.
"Our conclusions ... are that such an injury will result in significant pain and distress ... before insensibility supervenes.
Fawc is in agreement with the prevailing scientific consensus that slaughter without pre-stunning causes pain and distress.
On the basis that this is avoidable and in the interests of welfare, Fawc concludes that all animals should be pre-stunned before slaughter."
As such, it recommends that all animals are stunned before having their throat cut.
These are not anti-religious organisations or cranks, but very mainstream, respectable animal welfare bodies, so worth taking seriously and engaging with the points they make.
Interestingly, in UK the Muslim organisation does not see a problem with this:
The Shechita Council, which oversees kosher meat, was contacted but did not supply a comment. Massood Khawaja, president of the Halal Food Authority, insisted that its animals were stunned. "The Koran says use your brain, ponder about things and that's what we are doing," he said. "It's a question of animal welfare."
tl;dr:
"Fawc is in agreement with the prevailing scientific consensus that slaughter without pre-stunning causes pain and distress."
That's all anyone is saying!
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Originally Posted by bobnot
No it doesnt.
It is true that apparently a badly slaughtered animal tastes bad due it releasing adrenaline into its body but that doesnt happen with the Halal method of slaughter. I think most peoples objections with Halal slaughter are just a combination of religious/racial predudice and ignorance.
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Noone is being racist
