Why is Halal and Kosher meat still ritually killed in the sacrificial manner?

Thanks for that, it’s a less obvious way of looking at a tradition, one that is user-led rather than religion-pushed. Interesting, I will give it some more thought relating to current food hygiene laws and regulations compared to the Bible, Talmud and Quran. Protection from disease appears to be the root reason for the tradition, but people rarely question their traditions - it’s easier just to continue them, the respect thing is a bit more than wanting to keep wearing a comfortable pair of jeans tho!

Because it has been that way for many years? And no is going around questioning why it is the way it is. As far as many people are concerned it is part of religious tradition and thus beyond questioning.

Try this one, then: What would it take to change their minds? (Big changes are tricky to achieve in one go, so a step-wise process might work better - what would the steps be?)

Try this one, then: What would it take to change their minds? (Big changes are tricky to achieve in one go, so a step-wise process might work better - what would the steps be?)

Because it is in the religion to do so, Muslims and Jews are not allowed (unless they are dying) to eat meat that hasn’t been dedicated to God. I don’t think it has anything to do with “respect” it’s a requirement in Islam and Judaism. It is much more complicated in Judaism, there are certain foods that can’t be eaten with other foods (not just pork as is the same in Islam) like dairy and meat and they have to eat from different sets of dishes and cutlery and drink from different sets of glasses. It is religiously pushed, it is a requirement for Muslims and Jews to follow this practise as it is better and healthier for us!

From my researches, I have no doubt that the reasons for care with choice and preparation of foods in all religious texts are there from an original need to reduce the incidence of food poisoning, parasitic and other debilitating diseases. This would have lead to fewer infant and maternal deaths and to more boys living long enough to fight in a battle. From pre-Christian to early Islamic times, disease was commonplace - think Africa before Oxfam/Red Crecent/Red Cross etc. The Bible and the Quran represent the first attempts at mass written communication of Middle Eastern ‘good practice’ in a great many areas of human endeavour. The transmission of such info had previously been done orally - but that is not a good way to achieve the consistent application of good practice. My point is, that at the time those books were written, they represented the best available advice. Today, that advice has been added to and magnified a thousandfold. Most major countries have entire government departments responsible for providing ‘good practise’ in all areas of disease and food hygiene, and in all the areas which represent extensions of pre-Christian and Islamic institutions for healthcare. Eating from me-only plates/glasses etc is something all governments would recommend for highly infectious hospitalised patients, and as sensible practice for hospital patients in general, and if this is not followed and a patient falls ill as a result, someone will get sued! However, if I share my meal with a friend using the same fork I cannot think of any disease I might give them without already being obviously ill? The bit about dairy and meat is an interesting one - hundreds of millions of people eat cheese and meat combinations (almost all of Italy and rather a lot of Europe, N & S America). They do not appear to be less healthy than Muslims or Jews, provided it’s in a balanced diet - and I recall the Quran advocates a degree of balance, whereas the Bible is less specfic. Today, the traditions continue, both by respect (if not understanding) and by stricture or enforcment, even though the sheer volume of equivalent guidelines equivalent to the Books requires an entire department of Brussel administrators just to keep the millions of pages of food advice up to date. It is not only the control of the export of duck eggs that runs to 29000 words… Had tobacco been available 2000y ago, I’m sure that the religious texts would have proscribed it - provided it was something that could clearly be associated by observation alone. The good advice which could usefullly have been included in the Books tends to cover things which are not obvious unless you have access to technologies that were not available at that time. Many of which were later innovated by Islamic scientists, in fact.