Cornell University has put out an animal slaughter guide which details Noahide slaughter. The paper was hosted on the USDA website. Noahide Law is even gaining ground in the food industry.
Kosher, Halal and Noahide
Slaughter
Ethical Consideration
Southern Poultry Science Society
Atlanta,
GA
January 23, 2007
Joe M. Regenstein
Head: Cornell Kosher Food Initiative
jmr9@cornell.edu
Introduction to the Noahide Code
The Noahide code is incumbent on all peoples. It states the minimum Biblical requirements for gentiles [non-Jews, “goy”] to live by the Divine code and the Covenant that gave the “rainbow.”
There are non-Jews around the world that have accepted on themselves these basic rules
The Laws of Noah
1. The required establishment of courts of justice 2. The prohibition of blasphemy (cursing G-d) 3. The prohibition of idolatry 4. The prohibition of six types of sexual relationships 5. The prohibition of murder 6. The prohibition of robbery 7. The prohibition of eating flesh cut from a living animal [also teaches avoiding cruelty to animals] [Note: A food/animal welfare law makes the top 7!]
Defining Noahide Slaughter
What is the physiological sign that slaughtered cattle or pigs(!) or poultry are “dead” in terms of this commandment:
Heart stops beating and no circulation of blood Occurs when major bleeding from neck or any major artery is finished
For all slaughter (religious and non-religious), cutting insensitive dying animal is OK if no food meat is removed until after heart death occurs
For all warm-blooded animals and poultry: If the head is totally separated from body this is immediate “death” even if the heart continues briefly
If the backbone, esophagus or windpipe is still connected, need heart death before removing meat
If animal or bird is not slaughtered by cut to the neck, other “signs” of death are not proof of heart death
A strict opinion: if a mammal or bird is killed by non-kosher slaughter with a cut to the neck internal organs are “meat cut from a living animal”: , some
Lungs, if the slaughter cut severs the windpipe; digestive tract (and attached organs?) if the slaughter cut severs the esophagus
Other slaughter methods: all parts OK
Limb cut/torn and partly attached: OK if it could heal
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