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Jewish and Muslim communities have a year to provide evidence that animals slaughtered by dhabiba and shechita (and not stunning them) do not experience more pain than those animals that are stunned before killing.
This was posted on Pharyngula a few months back.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7Hiu3ZJPt4&feature=player_embedded
I’m not settled as to what extent the law in this country should get involved in banning these practices.
But I’ll admit that that video really appealed to me emotionally, and I personally avoid kosher and halal meat from now on.
It’s completely unnecessary for those animals to suffer such a brutal, conscious death. No good reason for it whatsoever.
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Banning the ritual slaughter of mammals motivated by irrational religious ideology is a step towards the maturing of our species.
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