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Väldigt vad tyst det blev i den här tråden när någon kom med vetenskapliga fakta som står till halalslaktens fördel.
Kan vi nu enas om att halalslakt är på samma nivå eller bättre än "normal" slakt, och därmed låsa tråden? Eller ska rasisterna komma med känslostormar och ignorera fakta?
Nu handlade det om en antik studie från 1978, som dessutom inte verkar vara seriös. Modern studie visar motsatsen.
"Ahmed Ghanem, a halal slaughterman based in New Zealand, says that blood doesn't drain properly from stunned animals, although this has been countered by recent research at the University of Bristol in the UK.
Ghanem cites a 1978 study relying on EEG measurements led by Wilhelm Schulze of the University of Hanover, Germany, apparently concluding that halal slaughter was more humane than slaughter following stunning. But Schulze himself, who died in 2002, warned in his report that the stunning technique may not have functioned properly."
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17972-animals-feel-the-pain-of-religious-slaughter.html
Från samma artikel (från 2009)
"Brain signals have shown that calves do appear to feel pain when slaughtered according to Jewish and Muslim religious law, strengthening the case for adapting the practices to make them more humane.
"I think our work is the best evidence yet that it's painful," says Craig Johnson, who led the study at Massey University in Palmerston North, New Zealand.
Johnson summarised his results last week in London when receiving an award from the UK Humane Slaughter Association. His team also showed that if the animal is concussed through stunning, signals corresponding to pain disappear.
The findings increase pressure on religious groups that practice slaughter without stunning to reconsider. "It provides further evidence, if it was needed, that slaughtering an animal without stunning it first is painful," says Christopher Wathes of the UK Farm Animal Welfare Council, which has long argued for the practice to end."