Halal Slaughter of Livestock: Animal Welfare Science, History and Politics of Religious Slaughter

ISBN-13: 9783031175657 Publisher: Springer International Publishing Publication date: 11/03/2022 Series: Animal Welfare , #22 Edition description: 1st ed. 2023 Pages: 180 Product dimensions: 6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x (d) This unique volume gives insight into the science of slaughter with in-depth discussion of neural communication and the welfare aspects of pre-slaughter handling and slaughter of livesk. The concepts of conscious perception, unconsciousness, stunning, slaughter and death are discussed to provide readers with an understanding of the different events that lead to the conversion of animals into carcasses and subsequently into meat. This accessible work is an excellent resource for learning about welfare issues of different techniques, as it includes historical aspects of religious and conventional slaughter with a focus on the developments around technologies. It comprises the advent of mechanical slaughter in the form of poleaxes to present day use of sophisticated stunning e