Posted on 05/20/2009 12:41:35 PM PDT by JoeProBono
Fast food chain KFC is trialling halal meat in certain restaurants, but some Muslims say it hasn't been killed in the correct Islamic way. Catrin Nye asks when is halal meat not halal meat? It may claim its food is "finger lickin' good", but until recently strict Muslims might have seen a problem with it. Now fast food chain Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) is trialling halal meat - meaning it has been killed in accordance with Islamic dietary laws - in eight of its UK restaurants. But the trial has sparked a debate over what is and what isn't halal, with some Muslims boycotting the restaurants because they say the meat has not been killed correctly.
The issue is whether meat can be halal if it has been slaughtered using mechanical methods. Traditionally, halal meat is killed by hand and must be blessed by the person doing the job. But some Muslims say a mechanised form is also now acceptable. Halal is the description of food and drink Muslims are allowed to consume under Islamic dietary laws defined in the Qur'an and in the sayings of the prophet Muhammad. Classifying of halal food can only be carried out by a Muslim expert in the laws. The meat is traditionally prepared by slaughtering the animal with a quick cut to the throat with a sharp knife to allow all blood to drain from the animal, the idea being that the meat is cleaner. The slaughterman is required to say the traditional proclamation of faith in one god as the animal is killed.
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Well, the animals are just as dead, aren’t they?
Is the picture in the background Hala??
How about just standing on the back steps and popping the head off with a .22 short?
Muslims say it hasn't been killed in the correct Islamic wayThat would be by beheading, right?
Corporations guided by hate.
Just look at the UK if you want to know what the US will be like in 10 years...
The slaughterman is required to say the traditional proclamation of faith in one god as the animal is killed.In other words, he must shout “Allah Akbar” as he smites the neck.
close, you have to slit the chicken’s throat and let it bleed out. I knew a guy who had once seen a halal chicken plant in operation and he said it was surreal. They played a recording of a cleric reading prayers from the Koran, and so long as the prayer was playing the workers would run around grabbing chickens and slitting as many throats as possible. He described it as a vile bloody mess. But once the recording of the Koran ended the killing had to end too. Where’s PETA?
So snapping the animal’s neck with a .270, killing it instantly, doesn’t play?
Hala lujah
That would be by beheading, right?
Perhaps for family consumption. For KFC, they take one “volunteer” chicken and strap explosives on it. Later that chicken blows the flock up, as it were.
Not just simple beheading, but sawing off the head in a gruesome way with a serrated knife while chanting Allah Akbar and videotaping the bloody spectacle?
So can halal prepared chicken be served in the same restaurant as Kosher prepared chicken with out a cock fight ensuing?
thats what i was thinking...killing their way does it make it taste any better...??
So just hire a Rabbi.
“Where’s PETA?”
Out protesting some restaurant that serves non threatening suburban white people.
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