To not want to eat halal meat?

[PinkRiceKrispies]

Most restaurants serve it now, especially my favourite which is Indian food. Finding it more and more difficult to find somewhere that doesn't?

There are just over 900 KFC restaurants in the UK. For around 130 of them, the restaurants and the food that they serve is certified Halal.

I don't have a problem with eating Halal in Indian restaurants as it comes with the territory. But Halal meat should absolutely not be served in schools or public sector staff canteens. It's depriving non-Halal slaughterhouses of a major source of income.

Was waiting for the part where someone would call me racist for not wanting to eat halal meat. It's just a preference and I'm certainly not alone in that.
Will just have to ask ahead before eating at restaurants now.

What is your reason for not wanting to eat halal meat? I’m genuinely interested

OP, I can't read all the replies as the subject upsets me but I wrote to all the major supermarkets to ask about the selling of halal meat. All but Lidl and Aldi replied.

I was told that any animal slaughtered in the uk and sold for human consumption is stunned before slaughter whether it be halal or not . That is the law in this country. The only difference is that prayers are said over the animals before slaughter if they are to be sold as halal. As all the supermarkets said the same, I just make sure any meat I buy is raised and slaughtered in the UK. Plus when it comes to meat, you get what you pay for so I buy expensive meat as the animal is likely to have led a better life.

And how can you go to an authentic Indian restaurant and be bothered that they use halal meat when they’re most likely Muslims?? Obviously they’d use halal meat?

A preference about what though?

If you actually cared about animal welfare you'd be vegetarian or vegan.

Avoiding halal is pointless.

However I dont agree with religion being able to opt out of laws.

What preference? You either meat or you don't (I don't) its all 'humanely slaughtered' in this country anyway.

Many Indian restaurants are run by Sikhs which are against halal

don't eat it then - although I am unsure why you object as you wont say - which stifles debate somewhat

Personally I think if you are that bothered by animal slaughter you just wouldn;t eat meat full stop

I don’t eat halal meat due to my religious beliefs. It’s not because of any racial bias or anything like that. I find it difficult when I say I don’t eat halal or kosher meat, people question why or they start to explain why halal/kosher meat is ‘better’ than non-halal meat. I wouldn’t ever question why someone does eat halal or kosher, it’s your own preference, so not sure why people feel it’s okay to ask me?

Some of my friends who aren’t Muslim opt to eat halal as it’s generally cheaper than non-halal. I have eaten both halal and non halal meat and think they taste is the same personally.

Also I am South Asian, so when I go into a restaurant and ask them to confirm whether they serve halal meat, so many restaurants have said ‘yes’ and when then I opt for a veggie option, they’ve retracted and say no, we don’t serve halal meat, we just thought you wanted it to be. That’s reprehensible and disgusting so I always flag those restaurants to the UK halal monitoring committee and would encourage those to do the same.

YABU. If you eat regular non-free range meat then I'd be more concerned about the conditions the animals are kept in rather than their last few moments before death

OP I don't understand your preference on animal slaughter. Can someone explain?

@PinkRiceKrispies Where do you live? Maybe I can send you a list of non- halal Indian restaurants (well, north India anyway)

It is not! Schools in our Borough (highest % of Muslims in London) offer both halal and non-halal meat on every menu. Sikhs are forbidden to eat halal meat, so there is always non-halal available.

You should see some free range conditions if you think that makes it OK.

I'm not that bothered. I used to eat unspecified "meat curry" at a greasy spoon kind of Indian restaurant (alas now gone because of gentrification).

Just had a google. This threads made me want to be a vegetarian.

Mostly one and the same these days.

not sure what the objection is to canned religious words being played through the abattoir speakers instead of radio 2 while the halal lines are being done.

It is often cheaper that is why a lot of places use it. Isn't KFC halal meat because of cost?
Eat places that use organic meat if you want to avoid it.

People believe memes shared about halal meat that simply are not true in Britain.

Spend a day in a slaughter house then spout that opinion

I use a decent butcher, and cook my own.

If I eat out, I have fish or veggie.

YANBU