Babel Bans Knife Slaughterers In Front Of Sacrificial Animals Eid Al-Adha 2024

Illustration of the sacrifice welcoming Eid al-Adha. (Antaranews)a

JAKARTA - Syiar Sembelih Halal (Sybilal) of the Province of the Bangka Belitung Islands (Babel) prohibits pembeli from sharpening knives in front of sacrificial animals.

The head of the Sybilal Province of the Babel Islands, Anggi Galingga Soufyan, said that the regulation should not cause stress for cows and goats to sacrifice Eid al-Adha 2024.

"Sharing a knife in front of a sacrificial cow and goat should not be carried out by a slaughterer," he said when he was a resource person for the medical examination of sacrificial animals in Belitung, Wednesday, April 24, was confiscated by Antara.

He said that the things that the slaughterer should not do in slaughtering the sacrificial animal include sharpening the knife in front of the animal, the knife should not be removed from the neck until they believe the three channels have been cut.

Furthermore, slaughtering should not be too up and or down, the base of the neck and the cross section of the slaughter should not be in contact with each other.

"If these victims are in a stressful condition, it will certainly affect the quality of the sacrificial meat," he said.

Head of the Belitung Regency Government Welfare Bureau, Dedi Faiza, added that the pembelih was to avoid stress sacrificial animals, because they lowered the quality of the meat of the sacrificial animals.

"This sacrificial meat from stress sacrificial animals will increase meat acidity, because bacteria are easy to grow," he said.

In addition, the circulation of stressed cows is not perfect, so there will be a possibility of bleeding left inside the meat which will serve as a medium for the growth of disease germs.

"We can differentiate the meat from the unstressed cows, which the cutting process is carried out properly and the meat actually looks fresh for up to six to seven hours, while the beef is only five hours stressed," he said.