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'''Kutha (Kuttha) meat''' is defined as "meat of animal or fowl slaughtered slowly", as prescribed by the Muslim ] procedure.<ref>{{cite book|author1=Karen Pechilis|author2=Selva J. Raj|title=South Asian Religions: Tradition and Today|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kaubzRxh-U0C&pg=PA242 |year=2013|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-0-415-44851-2|page=242}}, Quote: "The Sikh Rahit Maryada forbids hair cutting, adultery, the use of intoxicants, and the eating of kutha meat, that is, Muslim halal meat, obtained through slow bleeding (...)"</ref> Abstaining from Kutha meat is one of the requirements for a Sikh to be an initiated ] or ] according to the code of conduct (''Rehat Maryada'') of ].<ref>{{cite book|author=Opinderjit Kaur Takhar|title=Sikh Identity: An Exploration of Groups Among Sikhs|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UaeoDQAAQBAJ&pg=PT39 |year=2016 |publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-1-351-90010-2|pages=38–39}}</ref>

Both the ] and the ] communities view slow method of killing animals negatively and forbid adherents from consuming such meat. The objection to Kutha meat has been the belief that the slow death by bleeding the animal is an inhumane way of killing animals to prepare meat.<ref>{{cite book|last=Singha|first=Dr. H.S.|title=Sikhism: A Complete Introduction |url=http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=nRodBu9seiIC&pg=PA3|accessdate=25 November 2010|edition=Paperback|series=Sikh Studies|volume= Book 7|date=30 May 2009|publisher=Hemkunt Press|location=New Delhi|isbn=978-81-7010-245-8|page=81|chapter=7 Sikh Traditions and Customs}}</ref> The Sikh tradition recommends the '']'' method instead, where the animal is killed is a single strike.<ref name="Engineers2009">{{cite book|last=Engineers|first=Niir Board Of Consultants &|title=Medical, Municipal and Plastic Waste Management Handbook|accessdate=2 May 2014|date=2009|publisher=National Institute of Industrial Research|isbn= 9788186623916|page= 214|quote=Halal is the method preferred by Muslims and jhatka by the Hindus/Christians/Sikhs, etc.}}</ref><ref>Rayall, Gurbachan Singh (31 Dec 1998). Punjabi University English-Punjabi dictionary. Foreign Language Study (in Punjabi and English). Punjabi University. {{ISBN|81-7380-095-2}}. Retrieved 28 November 2010. The Sikh Rahit Maryada forbids hair-cutting, adultery, the use of intoxicants, and the eating of kutha meat.</ref>

==Hinduism==
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==Sikhism==

For a ] (baptised Sikh), eating Kutha meat is considered to be one of the four cardinal Sins.<ref name="ReferenceB">{{cite web|url=http://www.sgpc.net/rehat_maryada/section_six.html |title=Sikh Reht Maryada Section Six |last=Dharam Parchar Committee |date=July 1997 |publisher=Shiromani Gurdwara Parbhandak Committee, Amritsar |pages=Article XXIV p. |language=English, Gurmukhi |accessdate=22 November 2010 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20020202081302/http://www.sgpc.net/rehat_maryada/section_six.html |archivedate= 2 February 2002 |deadurl=yes |df= }}</ref> These four sins are part of the Sikh Code of Conduct (Rehit Maryada).<ref name="ReferenceB"/> These four transgressions (taboo practices) must be avoided:

# Dishonouring the hair
# Eating the meat of an animal slaughtered the Muslim way (Kutha)<ref>{{cite book|last=Mansukhani|first=G.S.|title=Introduction to Sikhism |url=http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=5_SirMuPr54C&pg=PP1&dq=Introduction+to+Sikhism+G.S+Mansukhani&hl=en&ei=Fj3uTIW_BI26hAfxzszBDA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCoQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false|accessdate=25 November 2010|edition=Paperback|date=30 May 2009|publisher=Hemkunt Press|isbn=81-7010-181-6|page=87|chapter=76 What is the Sikh attitude to non-vegetarian food}}</ref>
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# Using tobacco

===Jhatka meat===
According to Singha, the ''Kutha'' meat is forbidden in Sikhism as one of the ''kurahits'', though there is no clarity on encouraging or discouraging meat consumption in general. The rejection of ''Kutha'' meat was initiated by Sikh Gurus:<ref name=singha81/>

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According to the ancient Aryan Hindu tradition, only such meat as is obtained from an animal which is killed with one stroke of the weapon causing instantaneous death is fit for human consumption. However, with the coming of Islam into India and the Muslim political hegemony, it became a state policy not to permit slaughter of animals for food, in any other manner, except as laid down in the Quran – the kosher meat prepared by slowly severing the main blood artery of the throat of the animal while reciting verses from the Quran. It is done to make slaughter a sacrifice to God and to expiate the sins of the slaughter. Guru Gobind Singh took a rather serious view of this aspect of the whole matter. He, therefore, while permitting flesh to be taken as food repudiated the whole theory of this expiatory sacrifice and the right of ruling Muslims to impose it on the non-Muslims. Accordingly, he made ''jhatka'' meat obligatory for those Sikhs who may be interested in taking meat as a part of their food.|HS Singha|Sikhism, A Complete Introduction<ref name=singha81>{{cite book|author=Dr. H.S. Singha|title=Sikh Studies|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nRodBu9seiIC&pg=PA81|year=2005|publisher=Hemkunt Press|isbn=978-81-7010-245-8|pages=81–82}}</ref>}}

While ''jhatka'' meat is acceptable in Sikhism, not all sources of meat is acceptable. According to Arvind-Pal Singh Mandair, the cow, the buffalo and the ox are an integral part of rural Sikh livelihoods, and these are never slaughtered for consumption by any method, treated with respect and beef is strictly avoided.<ref>{{cite book|author=Arvind-Pal Singh Mandair|title=Sikhism: A Guide for the Perplexed |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vdhLAQAAQBAJ|year=2013|publisher=Bloomsbury Academic |isbn=978-1-4411-0231-7|pages=171–172}}</ref>

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