not tot want to eat halal meat?

[Charis1]

I am finding it harder and harder to avoid. I do my best to ensure any meat I eat has lived and died humanely, and I think a lot of halal meat dies cruelly. I don't want to eat it. But all meat provided at work is halal. Much of the places to eat out cheaply around work and home is halal, and I've even heard a lot of the local super market meat is also halal, even if it isn't marked.

Why can't we have an option of guaranteed non halal meat clearly marked and available?

All meat should be clearly labeled.

Halal stunned
Halal not stunned
Non halal
Kosher

restaurants should give the option of what meats just as school should not just be buying only halal meats

Ah religious meat now this is what it boils down to religious meat why is religious meat wrong?

I don't live in the UK actually but I am British.

Sorry for the derail but the thread really started to get to me.

they have to pay an Imam to come and pray over the line and food. I do not want to participate to that.

You don't participate in it .

having worked in a slaughter house. I will tell you, if you want your food humane, don't eat meat.

Been a vegetarian ever since I left that place.

If it's halal, then it isn't religious meat of you are Sikh. (I am not Sikh but have quite a lot of Sikh rellies.)

and religious meat made me giggle.... seriously. To have your meat be religious because someone prayed over it means you have to believe that religion.

Otherwise it's just a bit of meat that was spoken to.

Why should it matter if one believes or not?

By the same stance why should non believers care that some wish to have their meat killed or cooked a certain way and not just make them have what we want?

Just because you don't believe in something does not mean you should be forced to eat it because your opinion does not count.

BigRedBall I do, because I pay for the food, and the costs are included in the price. It's the principle of things.

Maybe eating religious meat means you catch the muslim

Is it really a bit problem? are we rife with Halal meat.

I live in a town that is pretty muslim dominant, halal butchers are just round the corner from my street.

But so are your "normal" butchers

And in the tesco, asda, and sainsburies in my town, all the halal meat is separate on the isle, with a big halal sign, and takes up much less space than all the other meats.

Oh and the KFC round the corner from me is Halal, but the one in the town centre isn't

It's just one of those threads isn't it?

just don't eat meat then.
Halal slaughter is done with a very sharp knife which severs the spinal column in one go.
if people think that the average 'normal' Western slaughter house is a lovely humane place, then they are pretty silly.
As others have said already.....I particularly liked 'iamadaftcoo's' assertion that the animals in a normal slaughterhouse are not 'licked to death by kittens'.
I have not yet read the whole thread, but IMO, all this pearl clutching about halal meat is badly disguised anti Islam.

What principle is that then ?

Maybe eating religious meat means you catch the muslim HAHA :D

Mrsjayy That I do not agree with a lot of things that are in the Coran, and do not want to pay even a cent toward the upkeep of an Imam. what do you want me to say more? I am quite explicit.

well that is up to you then, ofaFrenchmind - just don't eat halal meat.

actually I have been buying halal meat for years - it is much more hygienic as it has been bled.

I think its mainly islamophobia which causes people to main about halal meat but they pretend to care about the welfare of the animals. It is modern farming methods that lead to decreased animal welfare.
Animal welfare is written in the Koran and is essential if you choose to eat meat.
In France there is alot if contraversy regarding halal meat and yet they have no issue with fois gras.

*moan

Mrsjayy That I do not agree with a lot of things that are in the Coran, and do not want to pay even a cent toward the upkeep of an Imam. what do you want me to say more? I am quite explicit.

Why do you need to eat halal meat? where do you live that you sometimes have to choose halal or starvation???

I live in a town with a very high muslim population, mosques on every corners, halal butchers...etc but I've never ever struggled for it to be the only meat I can purchase.

iniquity

Your comment really hits the nail on the head

My position is not humane slaughter, that would be hypocritical indeed.

So yes indeed, I check the food I buy. However, I do not berate or give my (unwelcome I guess) opinion to others if they do. I just state it if somebody ask me why I pick and choose so slowly in shops.

I just state it if somebody ask me why I pick and choose so slowly in shops.

People ask you why you pick and choose things slowly in shops....

come on....

nobody has every asked you what meat you buy and why, admit it :)