Islam, as well as Buddhism and Christianity are three major religions in the world, which is introduced into China in the middle of the seventh century. So far, there are about 20 million Muslim in China, mainly distributed in the northwestern areas.
     
Halal food refers to the things, which are produced under the Islamic sharia law. Islam believes that Allah is the creator of the universe. Therefore, when Muslim slaughter cattle, sheep, chicken or others, they have to read "in the name of Allah", which is legitimate. if not in halal slaughter way, those foods can't be eaten. Thus, this special eating habits lead to the unique slaughter way: Islamic slaughtering.

    
It is indicated that researchers on slaughtering and butchering all over the word reach a consensus that halal slaughter is not only good for animals but also for human health. In this way, the meats has less bacteria and are more delicious. It is because Islamic slaughter make the animals lose the "feel" and pain, but not make them lose "consciousness" in the meat processing. Therefore, animals can use their natural breathing and pulse beating to let blood out. At the same time, the muscle contraction and movement of hooves also aggravated discharging blood, until bleeding off. The meats processed by this way contains less bacteria and more delicious.

  
In the eyes of the people who believes in Islam, the most important thing in the butchering is to respect for the animals and reduce their pain. In addition, it shows the Humanitarianism in slaughtering.

      
Toplea Machinery Company, as the manufacturer of the slaughterhouse equipments, we have contacted many halal slaughter house and installed abattoir equipments for them. For chicken slaughtering, we provide the butchering project without stunning. For cattle and sheep/goats slaughtering, we use pneumatic reverse case, which meets the halal slaughtering. By the way, according to our installation experience, we find Muslim operators prefer to use wide blades. And this kind of tool may be easily to cut off chicken neck, so that it is difficult for chicken rail changing. We suggest using Chinese knife to improve butchering quality and working efficiency.

     
Islamic slaughter way means to butcher with sharp knife, which is a kind of mercy and compassion for animals.
Sharia law rules: Islamic slaughter way divides into two types, normal and special . Normal butchering way.is to slaughter trachea, esophagus and two venous duct, at least three of them .Therefore, cutting position should be below larynx. Special slaughtering means in the special case such as sheep or cattle falling into well, or their heads get stuck in the crypt and they seems to be dying at any time. At this time, their vital parts can be killed with edge tool to bleeding. In this case, meats can also be eaten.

   
Request for operator:1.must be Muslim and can read shahada and the Koran. 2. Praising to the Allah, by the name of the Allah, When slaughtering 3.Cutting off four parts: trachea, oesophagus and two veins

The condition of butchering: 1. Using Sharp Knife 2. The time of slaughtering should be after Fajr and before Maghrib. It is because night is sleeping time for animals.

Sunnah rule: creatures face the west because kaaba in the west. 2. Their eyes should be covered.3.For cattle and sheep, It is better to tie up their two forelegs and one of the hind legs, so that the untied leg can shake fully to reduce pain and make bloodletting entirely.

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