Quote Originally Posted by Thorne View Post
Is there a difference between stunning before slaughter or not?
Who cares?
Well, let's see, anyone who doesn't see other beings as things?

As I understand it, the ritual killing involves severing the carotid and jugular veins. It is supposed to be very quick and relatively painless.
It is neither quick nor painless, as I have seen both on farms in my childhood and heard. There is a reason we say 'scream like a stuck pig' - and it goes on and on and on!

If you had the choice, would you prefer to be stunned, or would you like to have your throat cut, being hung up by a leg, and hang there writhing in pain and fear for the next five minutes? That is if the butcher can be bothered to wait to cut on until after you are dead? Time is money, after all.

Is the call for banning animal welfare or a racist agenda?
I doubt that it's intended to be racist. I do think there are some people who are genuinely concerned over animal welfare.
So do I. I think the hue and cry over religion is far out, animal welfare people have been after this, as well as other things, for a long time.

Humanism - or animal welfare - has to come before religion. That is why this should not be happening nor, not to forget, all the other shit done to domestic animals for reasons of expediency. It does not matter why.