devilsadvocate
10-24-2010, 03:30 PM
Disclosure
I'm a meat eater. I know that my food has to be slaughtered for me to eat it. I don't have any "meat is murder" issues, but I do care that my food is treated as humanely as possible. I haven't been hunting for many, many years, but when I used to I wouldn't take a shot unless my chances of a one shot kill were extremely good. I know some meat eaters think hunting is barbaric, but I don't.
I read about a woman in the UK that tried to return some meat to a store because she found out it might have been slaughtered using Halal slaughter. The woman wanted a refund on a religious basis, she is a Christian. I don't believe for one moment she had any concern about the way the animal suffered and I'm sure she wouldn't have had any problem eating meat from an animal slaughtered using very similar methods as they used to in my grandparent's day. I remember as a child my grandfather telling me how they would slaughter a pig by tying it's legs slitting it's throat, hanging it up, still alive and collecting the blood to make blood sausage.
Okay to the point.
I understand people that only buy free range food or farming with humanity food. I do whenever I can. But would you refuse to eat an animal you would normally eat just because the slaughter method is according to a religious law? If so is it any religion or just specific ones?
I'm a meat eater. I know that my food has to be slaughtered for me to eat it. I don't have any "meat is murder" issues, but I do care that my food is treated as humanely as possible. I haven't been hunting for many, many years, but when I used to I wouldn't take a shot unless my chances of a one shot kill were extremely good. I know some meat eaters think hunting is barbaric, but I don't.
I read about a woman in the UK that tried to return some meat to a store because she found out it might have been slaughtered using Halal slaughter. The woman wanted a refund on a religious basis, she is a Christian. I don't believe for one moment she had any concern about the way the animal suffered and I'm sure she wouldn't have had any problem eating meat from an animal slaughtered using very similar methods as they used to in my grandparent's day. I remember as a child my grandfather telling me how they would slaughter a pig by tying it's legs slitting it's throat, hanging it up, still alive and collecting the blood to make blood sausage.
Okay to the point.
I understand people that only buy free range food or farming with humanity food. I do whenever I can. But would you refuse to eat an animal you would normally eat just because the slaughter method is according to a religious law? If so is it any religion or just specific ones?