do you care if your meat is stunned before slaughter?

[salsmum]

Increasingly these days hospitals,schools, restuarants/takeaways and care homes are using Halal meat. I would like to know if the meat that I eat has been stunned before slaughter and find the Halal slaughter method particularly cruel (animals throat is cut while it is still concious) I just wanted to ask if any MNs would like to be given the choice whether they eat Halal meat and whether they would choose not to if the meat was labelled on the supermarket shelf? i.e. stating if the animal has been stunned prior to slaughter..some Halal meat the animals are pre-stunned beforehand IYSWIM? This isnt a post about religious beliefs so please don't flame me but mearly I'm interested to see if anyone else would rather have the choice to know

I eat very little meat and there there are meats I don't eat - veal and steak.

I would want to know how the meat that I do eat is killed.

But I think we are told aren't we. However, I'm very suspicious with trillian's post about muslims being told it's halal when it's not.

I can't kill my own meat so I think I'll revert back to veggie again.

• What should people do if they can only afford the cheaper chicken? -

I have been in this position myself, as I am on a low income, but I decided that I would feel better about buying vegetables instead of cheap chicken, or only buying the more expensive free-range chicken as a special treat. Now I buy less of the more expensive, quality meat because I don't feel comfortable eating the cheap stuff, knowing where it has come from and how it's treated.