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.

Which bit of 'cater to all faiths' did you miss?

Exactly. I think this thread is just an excuse to go bash Muslims. I've never actually tried a kosher meal. I think I'll go to a kosher restaurant sometime soon and try it out.

You'd never be able to buy from the supermarket at Christmas time there's always some kind carol singers or bands, corrupting the carrots.

There is no reason why they cannot offer both meat options.
Madness.

If all the chicken was blanket halal everyone could eat it and it'd cut costs due to economies of scale.

Cost wise. If all the chicken was halal it's easier to bulk order and just have one supplier. Don't need to worry about getting the halal and non-halal mixed up.

I think it may depend on the animal, the regs for chickens might vary from the regs for sheep, cows, pigs.

Not so easy to dispatch.

Well quite. If everyone else is not indifferent, then you have to run two supply chains.

Except Sikhs, or others who had an ideological aversion. Clear labelling allowing choice would show the market forces involved.

But Sikhs aren't allowed to eat stunned meat, so how does it help them?

In my experience they can and do in the UK. But they won't eat halal.

And Jedi's won't be able to eat if a knife not a light sabre is used.

They'll have to have the vegetarian option.

Most baptised Sikhs (over 50%) are vegetarian anyway. Why would others have an ideological a aversion to halal meat only?

I gather it's the prayer aspect.

Is that same the logic in the atheism. If you don't believe in the other God, then the prayers are just soundwaves with no impact. You have to believe the sound waves will be interpreted by something for them to matter.

A lot of people think it is cleaner and cooks better because it has been bled. Lamb chops on the BBQ definitely taste different when they are halal.

How dare they. (Sarcasm)

From what I've read, some parts of the animal.are never kosher (I think hind legs were given as an example). So animals are killed in a kosher way without stunning, and they use the parts which are kosher. The rest goes onto the general meat market unlabelled. I haven't 100% fact checked all of this but I read it in a good few places.

Ok, they may eat it, but the Sikh method of slaughter forbids stunning.

A full swift beheading right? The Sikh way?

Yes, Jhatka.

It's been suggested a few times on this thread the animals have a better life pre slaughter if halal. I googled to see if we have halal farms in the UK providing these better lives for all the halal meat animals. Turns out we do have a couple. But not anything like even close to the amount of halal meat produced. So posters saying that the animals have a better life pre slaughter, this simply isn't true, they're the same animals going to none halal slaughter.

I'm not sure animal welfare is better in Muslim countries but happy to have my mind changed by evidence that it is.

I think that in reality most halal chickens for example are similar to the same industrial production processes as non halal chicken. Especially takeaways - no way are they paying above the odds for free range chicken halal or otherwise.

To be a person of faith is purely a matter of belief surely.