Thoughts on Eid-ul-Azha

Time has come to review and reorganise these animal slaughtering, meat processing and garbage disposal processes. The whole issue needs to be looked at from a scientific angle by setting up temporary slaughter houses in every locality; local governments and communities can efficiently manage this affair. Senior madrassah students and mullahs can be employed by these temporary slaughter houses to carry out the job following appropriate religious instructions. These temporary slaughter houses should be allowed to employ adult semi-professionals and professionals only, who have to be well trained in operating electric meat cutting machines, which is nothing but a motorised (electric) power saw on a steel bench/table with safety switches. The use of these meat-cutting machines should be the precondition for permitting those proposed temporary slaughter houses. The meat cutting machine will play a vital role in making the whole operation efficient, manageable and cost effective. If the cost effectiveness of those slaughter houses is considered, at present animal owners are already paying 10% of their purchase price for slaughtering and processing of the meat and they are paying it to inefficient people.

The decision-makers should look into the matter.