Growing trend for halal meat

[SouthernFashionista]

I’m seeing this and it concerns me. I have noticed that Five Guys is now advertising that all its meat is halal and the restaurant in my workplace serves only halal meat. Who is pushing for this and why do the rest of us have no say? For what it’s worth, I am a Black woman, a practising Catholic with many Muslim friends and acquaintances. I don’t believe they are out there demanding halal meat everywhere they go.

I think this poster means that she thinks she will go to hell if she eats meat that has had Islamic prayers said over it. As opposed to meat that has been sworn over, or has had talk about the football over it from tired underpaid abattoir workers. No, it doesn't make sense to me either.

@Mademetoxic we do have a choice. We check out the restaurant before going there. Not rocket science.

As for 'restaurants not serving alcohol bla bla bla integration' - plenty of restaurants don't serve alcohol. If you can't handle a meal without alcohol, maybe you have a problem.

My God says that if I eat food corrupted by the false Gods I will go to Hell for eternity, Or are do my beliefs not matter?

Just adding I just checked and even halal meat is prestunned in the UK. So I really don't see the difference from an animal welfare perspective anyway.

We don't. School children don't. Why should they just cater for the Muslims? Why can't Muslims children just eat non halal food, imagine if they did that.
Why isn't there a choice for schools, hospitals etc?

Not the point of the thread but Five Guys serve alcohol in the UK? Do other fast food burger places serve alcohol in the UK now?

You believe that halal meat will send you to hell?

I guess you have to choose different restaurants to the three Five Guys.

It's just wrong. People should have a choice and it shouldn't be forced upon anyone. Muslim children could just eat non halal meat if we should have to put up and shut up.

Then you will need to be vegetarian, because you cannot guarantee that a worker in a standard abattoir will meet your religious criteria. Even then you might have a problem, because you cannot guarantee religious purity in the UK food supply chain.

Nobody's made up stories they choose to believe are real matter.

My God doesn't forgive. He is more of the flood the world type God.

how is this in anyway cruel? Can you go through both processes of slaughtering of meat and explain why you don't consider there is a difference in the slaughter method?

Not Mcdonalds or Burger King to my knowledge.

I suspect Muslim children have had to eat non halal foods for years.

Weird how we're quite terrible as a race, yet the world still spins...

They're not prayed over. There's a recording of the words playing on a loop.

Then why have Halal meat at all?

Of course Muslims do not need to eat pork or drink alcohol. But why shouldn't English people be allowed to if they choose? What is the issue with that?

Genuine question.

Five guys sells alcohol and pork in England as alcohol and pork are part of our culture when eating out.

Are we saying that is not part of the English culture in 3 stores in England? And why is that?

This has been answered - it's about economies of scale. Unless you want hospitals to spend more of their budgets on (already appalling) food, and the price of school meals to double, this is where we're at.

The 'halal' meat servied in schools and hospitals is likely to be the stunned kind, so where is the problem?

You need extra licenses to serve alcohol anyway. Some restaurants let customers bring their own bottle. Some go through the hassle of the alcohol license..some (including most Muslim rum restaurants and fast food style places) don't do alcohol on the premises at all. It's always been like that.

It's because she can't hide her racism behind fake animal welfare concerns.

88% of the meat is stunned.
So how is it different to you?

They’re not just catering to Muslims. They cater to children with allergies and who are vegetarian. School kitchens cater for lots of different needs. Why is it only the Muslim ones that you have a problem with?

Its a business decision.

If it loses them money they will change their mind.

That's so weird that Five Guys do then. Are they seen as more of a restaurant than a fast food place?

This is why I only eat organic meat.