Is it just my imagination, or did “jameslalor” describe religious Jews as “iron-age savages”?
Seems so. Near as I can tell the only difference between slaughtering animals under halal laws and kosher laws is halal requires you mention Allah during the act.
Well, kosher slaughter consists in hanging the animal upside down, (which tends to terrify them), and then cutting their throats (which also usually includes their trachea), so that they bleed to death while choking for air and thrashing upside down.
And that's the way that Jews make sure that the animal was killed while alive, and not first made unconscious.
As opposed, for example, to stunning them with a bolt in a quiet, darkened room to keep them calm, before they are bled out, as is done in a modern slaughtering plant.
Yeah, halal is even worse. But in general, there's kosher and halal on the "iron-age savage" side of the line, and a modern slaughterhouse on the other side of the line.