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What is the ruling on eating imported slaughtered animals?

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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. He says: Is it permissible to eat unknown and imported slaughtered animals, when we do not know whether they were slaughtered according to the Shari'ah or not?

Answer:
The safest course for a person in this time is not to eat imported meat, but rather to eat what is slaughtered in the country, such as poultry and animals. This is because even what comes from the Jews and the Christians is not slaughtered in the Shari'ah manner; it is slaughtered automatically in factories and machines using hot water and electric shocks. This is because they cannot slaughter each individual animal according to the Shari'ah, as they slaughter huge quantities in a single moment. So the safest course for a person, and the one that clears his conscience, is not to eat imported meat, but to eat what is slaughtered in the country from poultry and animals. Yes. Honorable Shaykh. If one is in the lands of the disbelievers, such as those sent abroad and the Muslim communities, the Muslims there, praise be to Allah, have established specific slaughterhouses and abattoirs. One buys from them, buying from the Muslims there who sell meat and slaughter. There is no country in the world, approximately, that does not have Muslims, praise be to Allah. Yes.
Source قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [843 -939] ما حكم أكل الذبائح المستوردة؟ - الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com

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