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Originally Posted by aamirsaab  The ruling on killing animals for food is quite clear actually. I'll give a summarised version of it (I don't have the verse to hand); don't bash the animal to a bloody pulp and don't put the animal through unnecessary torture. The aim is to kill the animal to feed you but you shouldn't be in a state of rage (and thus, become reckless); you want to eat the animal, not rip every organ out.
It's a (metaphorical) battle of three worlds: The aim is to drain all the blood from the animal but in the most efficient yet non-horrific way to the animal and in the most practical manner!
Of course, you could argue that killing animals for food is horrific in and of itself but that's a topic for debate and another time, but we're dealing with swine being haram: since it'd be very impractical for a pig to be blood-ridden, I think that's pork ruled off the menu. |
As I see, the biggest problem is torturing the pig. I believe, that torture in killing the animal might be less strong than torture in wrong way of its previous life. Bad conditions, awful food, heat... could be much worst for the animal than killing. Cutting pig's neck isn't necessary the only way of killing it. There are special pistols that kill the pig in a momment withot pain. The same way could be used (and is widely used actually) for killing cows and sheeps.
In both way blood doesn't drain out from cow and sheep. What if muslim eat cow that its blood didn't drain very quickly. I'm apologizing for awful english but I might improve it, posting on this forum.
