Australian officials are seeking ways to satisfy Malaysian concerns that Australian slaughterhouses kill animals in a non-Muslim way.
Kuala Lumpur said Friday that it is declaring some Australian beef no longer fit for Muslims to eat because Australia seeks to ease animals` pain before killing the animals.
Islamic law, says Malaysia, requires that animals die from a single slice of the throat; Australians typically stun animals before cutting their throats to ease pain or cut them twice to speed their death.
Australia, which earns about $20 million from exports to mostly Muslim Malaysia, is seeking to find mutually acceptable ways of killing animals.
Besides Australia, other nations deemed by Kula Lumpur to use non-Muslim animal killing techniques are China, Indonesia, Thailand, South Africa, New Zealand and the United States.
Source: news.monstersandcritics.com
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