“State agriculture officials said the Rowes must build a custom slaughter facility. The two men say that would cost $740,000. State officials said mass slaughters conducted any other way are unsanitary and threaten an outbreak of disease.
The lamb slaughter commemorates the day when Muslims believe God allowed the patriarch Abraham to sacrifice a ram, instead of his son. Muslims believe the son to be sacrificed was Ishmael, rather than Isaac as recorded in the Christian Old Testament.”
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There are the reasons. And, no, I didn’t notice any input by the PETA crowd. Guess there are still a few people left that they are respectful/afraid of.
So it’s not the slaughter itself, but the magnitude of the slaughter and the public health ramifications.
[Note: ramifications is the appropriate word to convey the intended meaning, and is in no way intended as a sheep pun.]
>>“State agriculture officials said the Rowes must build a custom slaughter facility. The two men say that would cost $740,000. State officials said mass slaughters conducted any other way are unsanitary and threaten an outbreak of disease.<<
I like to see myself as a very black and white thinker. Your quote from the article clears it up. My previous post was born of ignorance of this part of the article.