.... The men of the family dragged a bleating sheep into the courtyard of the house and ritually slit its throat. When it had bled to death _ a process that can take up to six minutes – it was butchered and the meat cooked for a celebratory meal. You can probably guess she did not enjoy the feast.
Scenes like this were played out across the Muslim world at the beginning of this month – and possibly they were played out closer to home too. Last year police discovered that 80 sheep were ritually slaughtered for Eid al-Adha in a field in the Austrian Alps.
What would happen to me – or you for that matter – if we dragged a lamb into the garden and, with a sharp knife, hacked through the skin, sinews, arteries of its throat and then left it to bleed to death?
The chances are that we would go to prison for animal cruelty. British law is quite strict about this.
The animals we eat must be stunned before they are killed, in an attempt to minimise their pain, and the law even stipulates the methods used for stunning. [DevonLive] Read more
