“He has only forbidden you dead meat and blood, and the flesh of swine and that on which any other name has been invoked besides that of God.” (The Koran, 2:173)
Muslim religious law requires, among other things, that an animal must be drained of blood before it is halal – permissible for consumption. Ritual slaughter according to Jewish dietary law – shechita – has the same prescription. Most Muslim slaughterers believe that drainage will only be complete if the throat of the animal is slit without stunning it first, but now Haluk Anil of the University of Bristol, UK, and…
