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’ve just seen that my kids school is now all halal meat. I’m quite surprised by the change.

What effect does a prayer, that you don't hear, have on you?

@PigletJohn I don’t believe in it.

This.

They're all dying horribly. Most people on here are supporting that via consumption which makes this obsession with halal being cruel absolutely ridiculous.

If you don’t like animals dying horribly, don’t eat them, because violent death is never pleasant. That’s why we have pets euthanised rather than slaughtered.

@cookiecrumblepie

Do you mean "none?"

I don’t know what you mean? I am just surprised that all the meat I my kids school is halal. I was under the impression that halal meat is not the norm in the uk.

There was a prayer said in the slaughterhouse. That has no effect on you. Why do you care?

@PigletJohn because I don’t want to eat meat that has had a prayer said over it.

I walk round my town. When I see a food truck I call on Mythras to bless it, and the people who eat it.

You wouldn't know I've done it.

@PigletJohn but if I had a choice, I would choose non halal. I don’t want that choice taken away. It’s my choice, it doesn’t have to make sense to you.

I went to Dishoom yesterday and had some halal chicken and halal lamb. It tasted fabulous.

Thing is, wanting a prayer said over it makes no sense either.

Why not? It has no impact on you at all. You can still eat it. If I was a chef in a restaurant you frequented and after making your dish (let's say a pork loin) and I said in the kitchen "may God bless the customer eating this dish and may they find nourishment from my meal" would you then be "hurr durr. Send it back. I don't want it."

Objecting certainly doesn't

I gather you have never been to a formal dinner where somebody says grace.

I have. I join in and say Amen even though I'm a Hindu

Exactly! I'm not Hindu but I love the 'Om' at the end of my yoga class. I can feel it throughout my body.

I do yoga and I personally find it very helpful health wise and also helps me spiritually. Very happy you join in with the "Om". No obligation to, but very happy you choose to.

Thing is, in their religion there is a certain process and prayer to God when slaughtering an animal for meat. Muslims can also eat meat slaughtered and prayed by Christians and Jews providing they pray to god.

I assume you're an atheist and not taking the "I only want my religion prayed over this food". As an atheist a Muslim prayer has no effect on your meat you eat if the meat is halal.

What everyone is missing is the fact that I lose my personal choice. Whether it has an effect on me or not is up to me. I want my choice. I don't want that taken away. I have no issue with others choosing to eat halal but I may not want to and I want that choice.

Terrible, funny that the minorities are becoming dictators!

You don't want to eat food that has had a prayer said over it.

Regardless of the religion?

@PigletJohn you are still trying to understand why I don’t want to eat halal meat rather than just accepting that I should have a right not to want it.

If you're ordered a fruit salad do you want or care about the choice of pink lady Vs granny Smith apples.

But that is a mad analogy - they taste completely different! Which does not apply to meat in terms of how it is slaughtered.

@FoodieBoobie I am not going to answer questions about everything I eat. I have explained my thoughts above.