We begin with a new Mishna: when one slaughters an animal for purposes of idol worship: for the sake of the mountains or the hills or the seas or the rivers or the wilderness, the slaughter is not valid. If there were two people holding a knife together and slaughtering an animal - one of them for the sake of those purposes above, and one for the sake of a legitimate matter, their slaughter is not valid.
The rabbis discuss whether or not we can forbid another's property. What if a neighbour's animal was near an idol when it was slaughtered? What if the slaughter was of one siman and not both simanim? Can the rabbis rule on the property of Gentiles? The rabbis discuss other instances where the entirety of a sacrifice is not permitted and what that suggests regarding a less complete act of shechita.
The rabbis also disagree about the kashrut of an animal whose shechita is done while the owner is thinking of idolatry.
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