I am hearing that on his deathbed Colonel Sanders received the light of Islam and unhesitatingly recited the Shahada. Even now he looks down on the Ummah from the gardens of Jannah. Truly there is no god but Allah, and Mohammad is his prophet!
Well, the biggest difference is that kosher slaughter is performed by person trained to kill animals in accordance with Jewish law. Halal slaughter, on the other hand, is performed by a person trained to kill animals in accordance with Muslim law—and they say the name Allah during the process!!!! Otherwise the processes are virtually indistinguishable. Notably, maximization of animal suffering is a key element to both.
Notably, maximization of animal suffering is a key element to both.
It's not literally that. Back when these methods were written down, they were thought as minimizing suffering because you had to make it quick. A non religious farmer who wouldn't care could torture the animal for dozens of minutes by doing it carelessly while halal / kosher farmers would use proper methods
Now technology evolved so there's debate to be had but the initial intent wasn't cruelty, quite the contrary
This implication that Halal slaughtering processes purposefully maximize animal suffering has real "those savage bloodthirsty arabs" vibes. The methods may not be particularly kind, but let's not pretend what happens to animals in the west is any better. And it's particularly gross and inaccurate to say that religious food laws purposefully maximize suffering.
I don't think that's true - the part about them being virtually indistinguishable. Halal can include bolt stunning which uses significant force to render the animal unconscious
To achieve this in livestock, many Islamic authorities approved different stunning techniques such as a physical blow or passage of an electrical current through the head directly or through an electrified water bath or to induce unconsciousness gradually with a hypoxic or anesthetic gas with different farmed mammals and birds to render them unconscious at the end of the procedure, meaning relatively immediately
These are not always effective and still subject a great many animals to significant pain and suffering.