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.

The number of posts thinking we should adopt certain religious practises ‘because it would mean something to them and nothing to you’ is alarming.

Do you have any references or evidence to support this statement? Everything I have found on halal slaughter is that the majority of UK Muslim clerics are content for animals to be stunned before slaughter, whether this is to provide meat served at home or in their local mosque?

It is only a small minority of Muslim mosques and Muslim families that insist on serving only meat from animals that are fully awake when their throat is slit.

I know 100% of kosher meat, wherever consumed in the UK, is not stunned.

Both halal and kosher slaughter should be held to the same legal standard as all other farm animal slaughter in the UK. We should all be equal before the Law!

I have a problem with kosher slaughter, yes. But have yet to see a mainstream fast food chain only offer kosher meat, or a council school.

@KitWynwe should be. Christianity agrees. Certain religions do not, the law comes second.

You are free to do so.

In the meantime companies will decide how best to manage their suppliers, their overheads and their clientele.

That is not a Christian religious dietary law.

I refer you also to Acts 10:15

Just because the excesses of behaviour are not exactly to the letter the same that does not make them any less bad. Why is child marriage OK in Louisiana but not in Afghanistan? In my book theyre equally abhorrent. Why do you feel differently?

I was joking.

My workplace does this and we advertise it extensively to ensure anyone who wants to eat meat (now only chicken as trying to be more environmentally friendly). I have worked there for 10 years and nobody has ever asked me why all meat is halal or complained about it. Anyone who doesn’t wish to eat it has a veggie or vegan option instead. It makes sense to me - many of our customers specify halal meat only and nobody has ever said non-halal meat only so I just don’t think the general population see this as an issue.

Yes. That is why I asked you the question - to show you the ridiculousness of your contention. But OK, give me the bible verse that says you can't eat meat that has been prayed over by someone of a different faith?

I wasn't

McVities digestive biscuits are both halal and kosher, so maybe we can all come together over a cup of tea.

I live near a flyover. Many of the food trucks to my town pass under it. If I were to stand on the bridge and recite prayers of assorted religions over the trucks that pass beneath me, would any sane person refuse to buy or eat them?

It's just meat. Why do you care? Just eat it. How does it bother you if it's halal?

@BusWankers

Do you have a response to what @CatchingtheCat posted? Or are you just going to ignore that? I'm an agnostic / atheist btw.

Does that work in reverse? Why are some people bothered if the meat isn’t halal?

Does praying near an abortion clinic make a difference? Should it be illegal?

😂

So here's the actual passage if 8:65

O Prophet! Motivate the believers to fight. If there are twenty steadfast among you, they will overcome two hundred. And if there are one hundred of you, they will overcome one thousand of the disbelievers, for they are a people who do not comprehend.

Where did you get that ridiculous picture from? We hate forrin people.com??

That's not quite the same thing though, is it? Women going for an abortion find the presence of someone visibly praying intimidating - hence exclusion zones.

And no matter what JD Vance says, it is actually fine to pray in your own home if you happen to live near an abortion clinic.

As opposed to......

You seem convinced that somebody is trying to make us adopt religious practices.

What are these practices?

Eating hot cross buns?

Chocolate eggs?

Can we have oaties instead?

Not least because kosher food is far far more expensive!

I think food is expensive enough and it's hard enough to make a go of a business these days, so if venues/food brands want to keep their costs down by catering to as many people as possible with one supplier of meat, all good if the meat was stunned first. I wouldn't be mad keen if all meat was kosher, but I have no problem with it all being stunned halal.

And I find the idea of the animal I’m eating meeting such an undignified end distressing. It’s all undue religious interference isn’t it?