The variations in religious and legal understandings on halal slaughter

Chandia, Mahmood; Soon, Jan Mei

doi:10.1108/bfj-03-2017-0129

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“…To summarize, people travel with all their cultural-religious baggage, and cannot discard it when holidaying in destinations that are culturally different [58]. In the case of Muslims, religion is not a question of certain isolated religious practices; rather it is a way of life that affects several aspects of their lives [59][60][61][62][63][64]. The term halal refers to products and services that are suitable for Muslims [65], and Muslim-friendly refers to those companies and institutions which offer some services that are suitable for Muslims [66,67].…”

Section: Culture and Religion And Segmentation Variablesmentioning

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Sustainable, Smart and Muslim-Friendly Tourist Destinations

2020

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Information and Communication Technology (ICT) tools are perfect for developing tourism. Several countries are making an effort to become smart and sustainable tourist destinations, making it easier for tourists to interact with their environment while at the same time improving the quality of life for local people. There are many studies of this process and the benefits it brings, although most of them approach the subject from a western traveler's point of view. This article aims to study the benefits of being a smart and Muslim-friendly tourist destination. An exploratory study was therefore carried out, including a bibliographical review of over one hundred secondary sources. We analyze the Muslim-friendly online services provided by nine destinations, and one of our principal conclusions is that these online services are of the greatest importance for a destination to be truly Muslim-friendly. We also conclude that such services allow companies to design tailored proposals and promote them through digital channels aimed at Muslim people.

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Section: Culture and Religion And Segmentation Variablesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Sustainable, Smart and Muslim-Friendly Tourist Destinations

2020

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“…Stunning raises concerns regarding the fulfilment of the requirements and principles of halal slaughtering that are mentioned in the primary sources of Islam. Such concerns relate to the fact that the animal is not alive at the time of slaughter and is only partially exsanguinated due to stunning [11]. According to Council Regulation (EC) No.…”

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“…Fracture of the skull must be avoided [16]. Chandia and Soon [11] confirmed that stunning prior to slaughter can be adopted if it fulfils the three following prerequisites:The stunning must be reversible; it must not kill the animal or cause permanent injury.Stunning should be performed by a trained Muslim slaughter-man or supervisor under regular monitoring by a competent Islamic authority or halal certification body.Halal slaughter animals should never be stunned with stunning equipment used on pigs.…”

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“…Although these halal certification bodies are unregulated and often operate according to different halal standards, they are considered enforcers of halal dietary laws by many Muslims, especially in minority Muslim population countries where there is a possible risk of cross contamination with non-halal raw materials (such as pork) [9]. Recently, the halal meat industry has been the focus of research of many authors from different viewpoints, examining the principles of halal meat [4], halal control points (HCPs) in meat processing [5,7], the aggregate of Islamic dietary and Hazard analysis and critical control points (HACCP) principles [10] and religious versus legal understandings of halal slaughter [11]. New technological practices and processes in the meat industry are constantly being developed in order to be more economical and hygienic, to comply with increasing consumer demand and, at the same time, to be in compliance with animal welfare [11].…”

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Halal Criteria Versus Conventional Slaughter Technology

Abdullah

Bořilová

Steinhauserova

2019

Animals

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The halal meat industry is today a reality in many regions of the world, including the European Union. The main religious laws in the area of halal meat production were legislated in ancient times and may be unchangeable due to their sanctity perceived by faithful Muslims, while the modern technology used in the meat industry is constantly evolving and being updated. The objective of this study is to highlight the points of controversy between the principles of halal and the technological means currently used in the meat industry. Modern slaughter practices, including animal fasting prior to slaughter, animal body position, the location of the incision during slaughter, stunning and mechanical slaughter, are reviewed. The purpose of preslaughter feed availability according to halal criteria could be to ensure greater welfare for animals, though feed withdrawal is necessary today. Although there is no clear unified opinion among the Islamic sects, reversible stunning of animals is generally accepted. A neck cut at a higher position than the conventional low cut in cattle may reduce the compromise in welfare (the onset of unconsciousness), minimise false aneurysm and be compatible with halal criteria. This study may contribute towards consideration being given to technology that is not in conflict with the religious legislation, while at the same time meeting the requirements of the modern meat industry.

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“…The halal slaughtering process for chicken is achieved by cutting the throat of the chicken through cutting trachea, esophagus and the two carotid arteries and jugular veins without decapitating the head during the slaughtering process [12,13]. To ensure that slaughterhouses adhere to the halal requirements, monitoring of the slaughtering process is required, current methods require inspectors to manually observe and inspect the slaughtered chicken [14].…”

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Halalnet: A Deep Neural Network That Classifies the Halalness of Slaughtered Chicken from Their Images

Elfakharany

Yusof

Ismail

et al. 2019

IJIE

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Halal requirement in food is important for millions of Muslims worldwide especially for meat and chicken products, insuring that slaughter houses adhere to this requirement is a challenging task to do manually. In this paper a method is proposed that uses a camera that takes images of slaughtered chicken on the conveyor in a slaughter house, the images are then analyzed by a deep neural network to classify if the image is of a halal slaughtered chicken or not. However, traditional deep learning models require large amounts of data to train on, which in this case these amounts of data were challenging to collect especially the images of non-halal slaughtered chicken, hence this paper shows how the use of one shot learning [1] and transfer learning [2] can reach high accuracy on the few amounts of data that were available. The architecture used is based on the Siamese neural networks architecture which ranks the similarity between two inputs [3] while using the Xception network [4] as the twin networks. We call it HalalNet. This work was done as part of SYCUT (syriah compliant slaughtering system) which is a monitoring system that monitors the halalness of the slaughtered chicken in a slaughter house. The data used to train and validate HalalNet was collected from the Azain slaughtering site (Semenyih, Selangor, Malaysia) containing images of both halal and nonhalal slaughtered chicken

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The variations in religious and legal understandings on halal slaughter

Cited by 15 publications

References 38 publications

Sustainable, Smart and Muslim-Friendly Tourist Destinations

Sustainable, Smart and Muslim-Friendly Tourist Destinations

Halal Criteria Versus Conventional Slaughter Technology

Halalnet: A Deep Neural Network That Classifies the Halalness of Slaughtered Chicken from Their Images

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