Religion, Rights and Governance Discussion 2022

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Running head: RELIGION, RIGHTS AND GOVERNANCE
RELIGION, RIGHTS AND GOVERNANCE
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RELIGION, RIGHTS AND GOVERNANCE1
Introduction
Animal welfare in many countries has come to be great concern acceptability in the
agricultural system, as well as in the religious faith. In an interpretation of Judeo-Christian era of
Bible, it has said that the protectorate over the animals has meant that every point of
mistreatment may be acceptable, which has altered for the greatest public in such meaning of
each individual has a responsibility or obligation for such animal welfare (Stratton 2016).
Several religious customs and traditions have contained various necessities relating to such
consumption and preparation of food. Especially, the Islamic and Jewish religious traditions have
contained some specific requirements in accordance with the consumption by way of
slaughtering some specific animals. According to their views, it has done for their religious
purpose. The Australian Human rights Commission has made a statement that every citizen of
Australia has a right to the freedom of religion. Article 18 of such International Covenant on
Civil and Political Rights has referred to such freedom of conscience, thought and religion
(Tomas 2014). However, in the territory of Australia, those animals whose meat has been
intended for such general ingestion or consumption are obligatory by Commonwealth Codes and
Standards. It should be presumed in advance they have been slaughtered. This paper aims to
discuss what type of responsibilities should be taken by the communities, individuals, as well as
governments to mitigate such tension between religious freedom and rights of animals in
Australia including multi-species and religious diversity.

RELIGION, RIGHTS AND GOVERNANCE2
Discussion
Several cultural, social, and legal questions have been associated with such rule and
regulations of the religious procedural slaughter of any animal within the territory of Australia.
Australia also transfers a major amount of sheep and beef meat to various Muslim nations for
slaughtering in accordance with halal processes. According to Animals Australia, almost 22
million lambs or sheep have been transferred to Kuwait alone over the past two decades. There
are 13 Exports of sheep and beef have sustained to develop all over the year 2010 by the
Australian producers contributing prosperous Islamic nations (Halafoff 2016).
In such Islamic tradition all over the country, the meat is to be affirmed as halal. It should
be slaughtered in accordance with some religious rituals. The Qur’an has required Muslims to
put up with by such halal. The term halal means what is legitimated or permitted by the rule of
Islamic rituals or Islamic rules of law. Halal has stood in obstruction or opposite to haram, which
has been forbidden by the Islamic rules. In the Quran, it has mentioned that any Muslim should
not eat any flesh, which has not been sanctified in the designation of Allah. It will be sinful for
those Muslims who have been eaten any haram meat. It has instructed in Sura 6:119 of the Quran
that eat anything, which is not made in Allah’s name will be sinning as he has forbidden that
unless and until the persons have been constrained or forced to it (Leroy, and Praet 2017). There
is a rule of making halal to such animal when it has been slaughtering by the slaughter. The
animal has been restrained than a prayer to the almighty Allah has been pronounced into the ear
of the animal. The animal is restrained, and a prayer to Allah is spoken into the animal’s ear.
Then the throat of that animal has been cut, and the animal has bled to death. There has appeared
a non-consistency agreement on these issues with an outcome that a number of Islamic
professors or scholars have contended on such exercise whereas the others may not support.