.... but stunning, as long as it does not actually kill the animal, is slowly being accepted as reducing the animal's suffering and still meeting the religious proscriptions.
This was deemed acceptable in Egypt with a fatwa in 1987, and New Zealand, the largest exporter of halal sheep meat, has developed slaughter and stunning techniques that meet both Muslim halal requirements and animal welfare concerns.
Iqbal Patel, president of the Australian Federation of Islamic Councils has conceded that all but a minority of "conservative Muslims" accepted electrical pre-stunning of sheep before ritual slaughter. [The Huffington Post] Read more
