"Forbidden to you (for food) are: Al-Maytata (the dead animals - cattle beast not slaughtered), blood, the flesh of swine, and the meat of that which has been slaughtered as a sacrifice for others than Allah, or has been slaughtered for idols, etc., or on which Allah’s Name HAS NOT BEEN mentioned WHILE slaughtering, and that which has been killed by strangling, or by a violent blow, or by a headlong fall, or by the goring of horns - and that which has been (partly) eaten by a wild animal - unless you are able to slaughter it (before its death) - and that which is sacrificed (slaughtered) on An-Nusub (stone-altars)." (Al-Ma’idah 5:3)
Therefore, if a person from the People of the Scripture eats the meat of a suffocated animal or the meat of an animal which dies of itself, then we do not eat from it. We are informed that THE PERCENTAGE OF DEAD BIRDS RESULTING FROM STUNNING AND MACHINE SLAUGHTERING (as is the case in the WEST), MAY REACH 35% (24% in UK, it is reported by MAFF)OF MORE. This is a very HIGH percentage and MUSLIMS MUST COME UP WITH ALTERNATIVES. MUSLIMS CAN EAT OTHER TYPES OF FOOD OR MAKE ARRANGEMENTS TO SLAUGHTER POULTRY THE ISLAMIC WAY. Therefore, EATING THE MEAT OF POULTRY SLAUGHTERED BY MACHINES DOES NOT FALL WITHIN THE PERMISSIBLE LIMITS mentioned in the following verse,
"And why should you not eat of that (meat) on which Allah’s Name has been pronounced (AT THE TIME OF SLAUGHTERING), while He has explained to you in detail what is forbidden to you, except under COMPULSION OF NECESSITY?…" (Al-An’am 6:119)
Accordingly, if there is a LEGITIMATE COMPELLING NEED for eating this kind of meat, you are permissible to do so IF YOU KNOW that had you not eaten from this meat, you WOULD HAVE STARVED. Nonetheless, if a person from the People of the Scripture offers a Muslim poultry that has not been slaughtered by machine or stunning, it is all right for the Muslim to eat from it AFTER invoking the name of Allah (SWT) on it, and there is no need to ask the slaughterer what he said when he slaughtered it. This is what is meant by the following verse,
