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Should all Halal/Kosher meat in the UK be labelled?
Foxywarrior
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Following on from another thread, it is now clear that meat in the UK could be killed in a number of ways, including Halal and Kosher.
Not everyone may want to eat meat killed in a certain way but it can be difficult to establish exactly the source of the meat and the slaughter method.
Should it be a requirement for all meat sold in the UK to be labelled accordingly, including restaurant menus?
Not everyone may want to eat meat killed in a certain way but it can be difficult to establish exactly the source of the meat and the slaughter method.
Should it be a requirement for all meat sold in the UK to be labelled accordingly, including restaurant menus?
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Having said that I don't actually eat meat at all anyway so it doesn't affect me personally.
It would also be beneficial for people who do want to eat Halal or Kosher, and I'm a bit puzzled that these meats aren't already labelled for this reason alone!
The FSA is cracking down on it. More takeaways have to have in their shop and on menus that turkey ham and similar products are used instead of pork. Not exactly the same issue but i'd guess that a similar notice about halal would be brought in.
I agree. Because frying the beast's brains is far less cruel. Suddenly Joe Public is an expert on such matter!
If I felt that strongly, I wouldnt eat meat. Simple as that really.
I'd be embarassed to argue that eating an animal that has been electrocuted is ethical...
And as said above, if it bothered me that much personally (not saying everybody should do the same) I would just stop eating meat.
Would you prefer to be electrocuted or have have the blood drained from your body whilst you were still alive?
While lots of supermarkets have a clearly labelled halal meat section (tastes no different to non-halal meat but is significantly cheaper) and halal butchers (also delicious meat and much cheaper) are clearly labelled, supermarkets do sell unlabeled halal meat.
4 years ago Tesco, M&S and The Co-Op admitted that all of their New Zealand lamb is halal, while Waitrose and Sainsburys said that all the lamb they sell is halal. However, none of them actually label it as such.
In the interest of fairness though all meat (halal and non-halal) should be labelled with the exact method of slaughter so that people can make fully informed choices about how much it actually bothers them.
Not true at all.
Yes, definitely. It should be clearly labelled.
Just as halal eaters feel strongly, so do many others feel as strongly to the converse.
Personally I couldn't give a hoot how the animal ended up on my plate. Thankfully I can detatch myself from seeing the end product and thinking of it as a previously live animal, and if part of the process on getting to my plate involves halal slaughter then, meh, whatever.
Indeed. Halal is, if pre-stunned, no more nor less cruel than a bolt to the brain.
As I've posted before, if people refuse to eat Halal because they don't like the idea of throat cutting, whether stunned or not, then they need to stop eating almost ALL poultry products. Pretty much all chicken, turkey etc. in the UK is stunned and then has it's head cut off, it then bleeds out. In reality it is pretty much identical to Halal and Kosher slaughter of the same birds, along with other animals. The main difference is that no prayer is broadcast, but a good many will be slaughtered to the sound of Katy Perry or Myley Cyrus as the radio plays in the background.
ALL Halal and Kosher meat in the UK should be pre stunned and properly labelled.
That way the vast majority can continue to buy whatever they like, anti Muslim folks can buy non Halal and Muslims can be sure they are buying Halal, anti Semites can buy non Kosher and Jews can be sure they are buying Kosher, and if it is pre-stunned the ones who object purely on those grounds are happy too.
And before someone pipes up and moans that pre stunning means it isn't Halal, that's rubbish. All Halal slaughtered animals from New Zealand and many other countries are pre stunned, and a huge amount of that is exported to Muslims in the Middle East without anyone raising an eyebrow.
A bolt to the the head, snapping of the neck, suffocating or boiling to death, being gassed, electrocution or throat being slit...none sound that nice and you're right, if I really cared I would choose to subjugate said animal to none of the above.
A bolt to the head or electrocution is a much quicker and more humane method compared with letting an animal bleed to death.