Would you eat halal meat?

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Just seen something trending on twitter and im curious to know if non Muslims eat halal meat and if not, why?

As a Christian I would practice 1 Corinthians 10 regarding halal meat.

“Eat anything sold in the meat market without raising questions of conscience, for, “The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it.” If an unbeliever invites you to a meal and you want to go, eat whatever is put before you without raising questions of conscience. But if someone says to you, “This has been offered in sacrifice,” then do not eat it, both for the sake of the one who told you and for the sake of conscience. I am referring to the other person’s conscience, not yours.”

I'd rather not. But willing that's all that's on the menu.

I do as like others have said it is inevitable in takeaways and restraunts. Those who don't eat halal meat for animal welfare reasons baffle me. I don't understand how you can draw the line at non stunned = unethical when we are talking about the murder of an innocent animal for our own pleasure. Either you think it's ok to eat animals or you don't. In my opinion the halal controversy is made up bs to make some people feel superior.

Not if I can avoid it. Which is difficult sometimes because I have Muslim relatives.

It is awful to see footage of an animal suspended by its feet, throat slit, dying in terror and agony because it hasn't been stunned. There are so many others foods you can eat without killing animals.

No. Absolutely not. I buy my meat from my local farm shop or the butcher at the garden centre

No, it's inhumane.

No

I try not to, but there’s no choice in a lot of restaurants and even KFC. I wouldn’t buy and cook it through choice though

People are never going to stop eating meat.

I'd rather not eat other foods and eat meat

When you eat out, the meat is usually halal.

Just because meat isn’t marked as halal, it doesn’t mean it’s not halal iyswim. Labelling something as halal is important for people who follow a halal diet but other meat can be either.

The people on Twitter frothing over this when they aren’t veggie or vegan are just being racist. They don’t know which abattoir their meat is from.

I believe that Aldi is the only British supermarket that doesn’t stock halal meat but I don’t know if that includes ready meals etc

No, I don't like religious beliefs being pushed onto food.

No they're not @teatoast8 but @SherryBaby11 has a point. Not eating halal meat as it's barbaric is an odd stance when the majority, if not all, meat you buy is from an animal that was most likely terrified and in pain when it died. If it wasn't terrified due to being stunned you can bet being stuffed into the back of a lorry to get to the slaughter house or stood behind another animal whilst it was stunned wasn't an altogether pleasant experience.

The poster has a point about the cognitive dissonance of it all.

Halal or non-Halal, I doubt there is a difference in animal welfare. I have spent time in a non-halal abattoir and the animals know exactly what is happening. The hygiene standards are high and the meat extracted is certainly well-handled. But after the first few are run through, the lambs know exactly what is going to happen. They quiver and get anxious and you can see the wide-eyed fear. That is the part that no standards of butchery can discharge.

Well 'never' is not something you or I know 100%, is it. We as humans are only here for the equivalent of less than a millisecond in the great scheme of how long the world has existed. We can't POSSIBLY know that.

What I AM saying is, what we do now is what savages do. Halal or no halal.

If you support the meat industry, you support it. Islamophobia aside. Own it, rather than feeling superior because we allege a higher standard of welfare (set by our own standards and still involving the mass-breeding of miserable animals, traumatised, destined to die and killed cruelly).

If you eat out or get take away you're mostly eating halal.

Agree. The meat industry is cruel and brutal, halal or not.

I think people massively under-estimate the amount of suffering involved in non-halal slaughtering in practice.

People are never going to stop eating meat.

@teatoast8 Can you see into the future Emma? 🙄

There is significant cognitive dissonance involved in thinking you are doing good for animal welfare while still eating meat. If you genuinely want animals not to suffer don’t eat them 🤷‍♀️

For a start I'm not. And the circle I'm in certainly won't be

For a start I'm not. And the circle I'm in certainly won't be

You're not what? What circle? The butchers circle?

Yes. I'm an omnivore.

I'm well aware that the mass produced meat I buy in the supermarket and eat at restaurants comes from animals that don't live happy fulfilling lives, and are simply reared to be killed.

I'm alright with that by the way. I believe it to be a necessary evil to support the food chain that we humans require.

However, given these facts, I don't believe that refusing to eat halal meat makes a person any better or more ethical.

Not stop eating meat. Kinds obvious. The people I know