Comments on: French far-right turns to halal meat as next political wedge issue http://blogs.reuters.com/faithworld/2012/02/20/french-far-right-turns-to-halal-meat-as-next-political-wedge-issue/ Religion, faith and ethics Wed, 22 May 2013 22:52:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: beaudin http://blogs.reuters.com/faithworld/2012/02/20/french-far-right-turns-to-halal-meat-as-next-political-wedge-issue/comment-page-1/#comment-32479 beaudin Wed, 07 Mar 2012 18:10:28 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/faithworld/?p=24807#comment-32479 Great comments from 'paddydubai'. The key to resolving this and all issues, real or invented, is through knowledge and truth-seeking, not through reactionary ignorance and prejudice. Great comments from ‘paddydubai’. The key to resolving this and all issues, real or invented, is through knowledge and truth-seeking, not through reactionary ignorance and prejudice.

]]> By: paddydubai http://blogs.reuters.com/faithworld/2012/02/20/french-far-right-turns-to-halal-meat-as-next-political-wedge-issue/comment-page-1/#comment-32351 paddydubai Tue, 21 Feb 2012 06:50:57 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/faithworld/?p=24807#comment-32351 This article implies at one point and asserts at another that the non-halal practice of stunning the animal before killing it is more humane. A great deal of research, tracking EEG and ECG, suggests that the opposite is true. If the animal's throat is cut with a sufficiently sharp knife, it registers no feeling, then quickly and painlessly dies through loss of blood. Although it convulses violently in its closing moments, this is a reflexive spinal reaction; the brain has ceased being sensate by this point. On the other hand, the ECG records show the animal registers intense pain when the stun bolt hits it. This article implies at one point and asserts at another that the non-halal practice of stunning the animal before killing it is more humane. A great deal of research, tracking EEG and ECG, suggests that the opposite is true.

If the animal’s throat is cut with a sufficiently sharp knife, it registers no feeling, then quickly and painlessly dies through loss of blood. Although it convulses violently in its closing moments, this is a reflexive spinal reaction; the brain has ceased being sensate by this point.

On the other hand, the ECG records show the animal registers intense pain when the stun bolt hits it.

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