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STUNNING
DRAWBACKS of STUNNING
Whether mechanical, electrical and chemical, stunning
causes pain, suffering, paralysis, breaking of bones and
death. This intentional act of injury makes the animal
unsuitable for consumption according to the Islamic code
of practice.
- Death does occur in many animals and about 1/3 of
chickens die before Dhabh/slaughter (Mitah...which is forbidden
to eat)
- The problem is also that nobody knows which animal/chicken
has died from stunning,as all are slaughtered and consumed
- It stops convulsion of animals and therefore blood
is not rushing through the body and heart for efficient
bleeding.
- As stunning is often done in large numbers before
slaughter, blood congeals in arteries and body tissues.
This reduces taste and keeping quality of meat. For
Muslims, blood is forbidden food but stunning can cause
death.
- The economic s of the meat industry is such that only
stunning guarantees high profits through high throughput.
Coupled with high demand for meat consumption, the stunning
procedure, however well intentioned, is bound to result
in excessive cruelty to animals and a large proportion
of dead animals in circulation following stunning but
prior to the slaughter procedure. All of these are in
contradiction to the Shariah of Islam.
- Dhabh method causes shock due to massive bleeding,
becomes painless, ensures the animals dies as a direct
method of bleeding and finally a good quality meat through
complete removal of blood helped by keeping intact the
nervous connection between brain and body because the
spinal cord is not served.
- Meat produced by the Dhabh method does not present
health risks. Recent studies have shown that depending
on the method used for stunning, the damaged brain may
enter the circulating blood and expose the consumer
to the risk of BSE /vCJD. It is interesting that when
a recent Scientific Steering Group of the EU assessed
the relative risk of spread of BSE from slaughtered
animals, the religious methods of slaughter (i.e. Islamic
& Jewish) were not even included in the risk assessment
exercise.
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