Question
Is stunning animals prior to slaughter permissible? A Mufti says that as long as the animal is alive at the time of slaughtering it, the meat is halaal.
Answer
You have mentioned two different issues: (1) The act of stunning, and (2) The status of the meat. Stunning is haraam. Even the honourable Mufti is not 100% certain that the animal is alive after the brutal stunning, hence he says: "... apparently the animals seemed to be alive." It is not permissible to consume the meat of such brutally stunned animals. The whole system of killing from A to Z is haraam.
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- The Majlis Vol 22 No 06
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