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In New Jersey, Regulators Pay Close Attention to Halal Rules
Newsworks ^ | JUNE 21, 2015 | JOSH CORNFIELD

Posted on 06/21/2015 3:28:20 PM PDT by nickcarraway

The hundreds of restaurants and suppliers that sell halal food products in New Jersey get an annual visit from state inspectors to ensure they're following the rules to do just that.

New Jersey adopted the Halal Food Consumer Protection Act in 2000, requiring halal food sellers to disclose information, including whether they sell both halal and non-halal food. It put out a reminder to businesses and consumers last week about the law, which includes fines as high as $10,000 for first-time offenders.

A few hours before the start of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan this week, Ediz Laypan, an investigator with the Division of Consumer Affairs' Office of Consumer Protection, walked into a restaurant in Princeton to see for himself that the establishment was living up to its promises.

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1 posted on 06/21/2015 3:28:20 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

I wonder what the fine is for hiring illegal immigrants ?


2 posted on 06/21/2015 3:34:43 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen (Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
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To: nickcarraway

Just a $10k fine for not following Sharia law. Not like they’ll cut off your hand.


3 posted on 06/21/2015 3:35:06 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: nickcarraway

Separation of religion and state?


4 posted on 06/21/2015 3:41:47 PM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country)
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To: nickcarraway

I wonder what halal food tastes like? Is it pretty bland? Does it need garlic salt?


5 posted on 06/21/2015 3:51:56 PM PDT by Ken522
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To: nickcarraway

Those provisioners are our guys on the “inside”. We could rid Jersey of Halal Muslims overnight with the right combination of access and...never mind; don’t want to be suspended or banned.


6 posted on 06/21/2015 3:55:05 PM PDT by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & Ifwater the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: nickcarraway
Yawn. It is not any different from what NJ does pertaining to Kosher food.

http://nj.gov/oag/newsreleases15/pr20150330a.html

7 posted on 06/21/2015 4:05:28 PM PDT by MD Expat in PA
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To: Ken522

They don’t believe in stunning the animal before death, and it’s throat has to be slit. Their food tastes pretty good, it just has to do with the death of the animal.


8 posted on 06/21/2015 4:06:04 PM PDT by Rusty0604
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To: Ken522

They don’t believe in stunning the animal before death, and it’s throat has to be slit. Their food tastes pretty good, it just has to do with the death of the animal.


9 posted on 06/21/2015 4:06:05 PM PDT by Rusty0604
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To: nickcarraway
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10 posted on 06/21/2015 4:13:12 PM PDT by floozy22 ( "Government is not the solution to our problem, government IS the problem." Ronald Reagan)
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To: nickcarraway
I looked it up. New Jersy does have an INSTRUCTIONS FOR KOSHER FOOD.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR KOSHER FOOD

11 posted on 06/21/2015 4:18:26 PM PDT by BBell (Identifies as a knight who says "NI"!!!!!! I want a shrubbery!!!!!!)
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To: I want the USA back
"Separation of religion and state?"

So long as it's not a sanitation issue WHY would the State be involved in this?

Shouldn't it be up to whatever religion to ensure Halal or Kosher?

12 posted on 06/21/2015 4:20:43 PM PDT by boop (Hey, stoop, that's got gears. It ain't no Ford.)
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To: nickcarraway

During my regular visits to Manhattan I run across scores of “halal” food carts.I’d starve before I’d actually stop at one.


13 posted on 06/21/2015 4:24:12 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Feelings Are Today's Truth,Truth Is Today's Blasphemy)
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To: floozy22

My brother was in Dubai. The halal version of bacon is a breakfast meat made of beef. He said it was horrible.


14 posted on 06/21/2015 5:19:17 PM PDT by toothfairy86
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The halal version of bacon is a breakfast meat made of beef. He said it was horrible

I believe that.

Am sick of reading about muslims... and mexicans; all of the obnoxious pandering the left is so good at. I want my country back.

15 posted on 06/21/2015 5:37:13 PM PDT by floozy22 ( "Government is not the solution to our problem, government IS the problem." Ronald Reagan)
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To: nickcarraway

It’s Ramadan again? How many times a year is Ramadan?

I also wonder how much the local taxpayers are on the hook for this program?


16 posted on 06/21/2015 5:57:23 PM PDT by logic101.net (If libs believe in Darwin and natural selection why do they get hacked off when it happens?)
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To: boop
Shouldn't it be up to whatever religion to ensure Halal or Kosher?

Yes, it should. And that's exactly how it works here in Singapore. All halal certification is administered by an organisation called MUIS (Majlis Ugama Islam Singapura), and the system is self financing.

17 posted on 06/21/2015 7:25:15 PM PDT by John Locke
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