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Originally Posted by DemolitionRed

There is some bad practice Halal, just as there is some bad practice in our slaughterhouses but real Halal should not include factory farming and cattle are not supposed to be slaughtered under the age of two years. One of the things about Halal is, the life of the animal prior to slaughter should be one of the great outdoors.

We have some barbaric practices when it comes to raising animals destined to the meat market and the majority of us are isolated from what goes on. Nobody want's to talk about slaughter practices around the dinner table. We'd rather not know.

Most chickens seen in our supermarkets were raised in sheds that resemble small chemical plants and have never seen the light of day until their journey to the slaughterhouse.

Even though we no longer produce our own veal, we happily buy it in from abroad. The practice of veal raising is incredibly cruel.

We still transport large numbers of animals for slaughter abroad to countries where welfare rules are less strict or non-existent.

Suckling pigs are a specialty for dinner parties but suckling pigs are killed with blunt force trauma (usually by slamming them onto a floor) which rarely works immediately with one strike.

Yeah, this is all true, and all great points, making the story in the OP completely bizarre.