International Journal of Education and Social Science (IJESS)

Halal slaughtering is often associated with cruelty to animal. There has been a long debate on the animal welfare in halal slaughtering and certain countries have gone way too far by prohibiting halal slaughtering and labelled it as inhumane practice. Why is it regarded as inhumane and cruelty to animals? The attitude of certain countries is sometimes unacceptable to the Muslim communities. Denmark for instance being very rigid to the extend they banned halal slaughtering and even kosher slaughtering. Denmark’s government has brought in a ban on the religious slaughter of animals for the production of halal and kosher meat, after years of campaigning from welfare activists. The reason is simply accusing halal slaughtering as cruelty to animal. Several questions we need to ask the so called animal activists: (1).What do they know about halal slaughtering? (2) do they know enough about halal slaughtering before advocating their ideas? (3) are they merely being emotional or perhaps being bias to the other segment of the community? (4) are they not sensitive enough to other religious requirements? In view of these, this paper aims at pointing and presenting to the readers the underlying good governance and best practices in halal slaughtering which will eradicate the negative thinking and perception that surrounds halal slaughtering.