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Secret Selling of Halal Meat in the U.S.
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| 10/16/2010
| Pamela Geller
Posted on 10/16/2010 8:34:05 AM PDT by GonzoII
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Secret Selling of Halal Meat in the U.S.
Posted 10/16/2010 ET
The latest submission to Islam comes to us from the meat industry in both Europe and the United States. Recently I have been reporting on the little-noted but explosive new revelations that much of the meat in Europe is being processed as halal and sold without the halal label. This is not the exception, but the rule, and the people are being betrayed by their own elected officials. And it’s happening here, too.
Yes, folks, if you’re in Europe, and in many areas in America as well, the meat you are eating is probably halal, unless you’re keeping josher. In a little-known strike against freedom, yet again, we are being forced into consuming meat slaughtered by means of a barbaric, torturous and inhuman method: Islamic slaughter.
Where are the PETA clowns and the ridiculous celebs who pose naked on giant billboards for PETA and “animal rights”? They would rather see people die of cancer or AIDS than see animals used in drug testing, but torturous and painful Islamic slaughter is OK.
Many people have written to me saying that they simply won’t eat halal meat, as they object to the methods used to slaughter the animal. And I agree. The Sharia term for halal slaughter is dhakat. Dhakat is to slaughter an animal by cutting the trachea, the esophagus, and the jugular vein, letting the blood drain out while saying “Bismillah allahu akbar”—in the name of Allah the greatest.
Many Christians, Hindus or Sikhs and Jews find it offensive to eat meat slaughtered according to Islamic ritual (although Jews are less likely to be exposed to such meat, because they eat kosher). The issue for many Christians is that in halal slaughter, an imam offers the animal up as a sacrifice to Allah which makes it meat sacrificed to idols.
70% of New Zealand lamb imported into the United Kingdom is halal. It is not labeled as such, so people are eating halal without even knowing it. But people there are fighting back: When halal food was imposed on public schools in the United Kingdom in 2007, parents were in an uproar. And last March, Stop Islamization of Europe (SIOE), the sister organization to my group Stop Islamization of America (SIOA), called for the cessation of mandatory consumption of halal meat on the continent.
As halal slaughter becomes more common in the U.S., the likelihood of non-Muslims who object to halal meat for whatever reason unknowingly buying it also increases.
I wanted to know if this Islamic supremacism in being imposed on U.S. meat processors as well. Imagine my surprise at many of the findings. After asking lots of questions of people inside the meat-packing industry, I discovered that only two plants in the U.S. that perform halal slaughter keep the halal meat separated from the non-halal meat, and they only do so because plant managers thought it was right to do so. At other meat-packing plants, animals are slaughtered following halal requirements, but then only a small bit of the meat is actually labeled halal.
This is because neither the United States nor Britain requires that halal meat be labeled as such. Nor do government regulations require that halal meat and non-halal meat be kept separate.
Yet there are existing labeling laws requiring that meat be labeled in a truthful and not misleading way. These labeling laws could be and should be used to make sure that all halal meat is clearly sold as such, so that those who want to avoid it for whatever reason can do so.
But the way it looks right now, most of the beef sold in the United States comes from meat-packing plants that engage in at least some halal slaughter—and don’t always tell the public that they’ve slaughtered the animal according to halal rules. There’s no easy way to tell exactly how much of this is occurring, but I am still investigating.
One thing appears clear now: some of this halal meat is going to public school lunch programs.
Why are meat-packing plants in the U.S. and Great Britain engaging in any halal slaughter at all? Because they export a great deal of meat to Muslim countries. That’s fine. But non-Muslims in America and Europe don’t deserve to have halal meat forced upon them in this way, without their knowledge or consent.
It’s Islamic supremacism on the march, yet again.
Pamela Geller is the editor and publisher of the Atlas Shrugs website and former associate publisher of the New York Observer. Her op-eds have appeared in the Washington Times, WorldNetDaily, the American Thinker, Israel National News and other publications.
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TOPICS: Religion & Culture; Religion & Politics
KEYWORDS: atlasshrugs; geller; groundzeromosque; halal; islam; moosecheese; muslims; obama; palin; radicalislam; sharia; silly
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posted on
10/16/2010 8:34:09 AM PDT
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GonzoII
To: GonzoII
I wonder what Halal lamb wrapped in bacon taste like?
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posted on
10/16/2010 8:37:42 AM PDT
by
Kartographer
(".. we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.")
To: GonzoII
Except for the last part halal slaughter is nearly identical to Kosher slaughter.
Wasn't there a huge uproar somewhere recently claiming that Kosher slaughter is inhumane?
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posted on
10/16/2010 8:41:40 AM PDT
by
Lurker
(The avalanche has begun. The pebbles no longer have a vote.)
To: GonzoII
Dhakat is to slaughter an animal by cutting the trachea, the esophagus, and the jugular vein, letting the blood drain out while saying Bismillah allahu akbarin the name of Allah the greatest. I'd like to perform this ritual on Ahmadinejad.
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posted on
10/16/2010 8:42:01 AM PDT
by
montag813
(http://www.facebook.com/StandWithArizona)
To: GonzoII
Those ribs I had last night was Halal? Who knew?
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posted on
10/16/2010 8:43:07 AM PDT
by
darkwing104
(Lets get dangerous)
To: Lurker
Maybe the point is that the killing of any animal for muzzie food is inhumane?
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posted on
10/16/2010 8:43:07 AM PDT
by
Kartographer
(".. we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.")
To: Kartographer
70% of New Zealand lamb imported into the United Kingdom is halal. It is not labeled as such, so people are eating halal without even knowing it. I find this difficult to believe. Does she mean that New Zealand is chock a block full of imams in NZ slaughterhouses? New Zealand exports a hell of a lot of lamb so that would mean they'd be employing hundreds if not thousands of immigrant imams doing nothing but halaling those cute little lambs from sun up to sun down.
And why wouldn't they advertise that fact? Britain is full of whack job muzzies who would presumably pay extra to insure that their dinners were slaughtered in a way that pleases their moon god.
L
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posted on
10/16/2010 8:47:38 AM PDT
by
Lurker
(The avalanche has begun. The pebbles no longer have a vote.)
To: GonzoII
Soooo....people want us to be NICE to the animal BEFORE we SLAUGHTER and KILL it for food?
I remember when I was a kid. Watching the chicken run around after you chop its head off was part of the fun.
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posted on
10/16/2010 8:50:18 AM PDT
by
rfreedom4u
("A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.")
To: GonzoII
so now, we pay a kosher tax, and a halal tax?
To: GonzoII
An halal slaughter is barbaric. The animal must be fully conscience while it is having its throat cut.
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posted on
10/16/2010 8:52:56 AM PDT
by
Slyfox
To: GonzoII
So what?
I don’t care how you slaughter an animal for the table... and eating a halal/kosher killed animal does make me muzzie or jewish.
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posted on
10/16/2010 8:55:17 AM PDT
by
clee1
(We use 43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, and 2 to pull a trigger. I'm lazy and I'm tired of smiling.)
To: GonzoII
Its Islamic supremacism on the march, yet again.
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posted on
10/16/2010 8:55:39 AM PDT
by
Slyfox
To: GonzoII
No surprise really. If we allow muslims to infest our society, we’re going to have to put up with their cultural crap. Our treacherous politicians will insist.
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posted on
10/16/2010 8:59:22 AM PDT
by
VR-21
To: GonzoII
I am no fan of the Muzzies, but this column was stupid.
Halal is the same as kosher.
Are all the Christians here going to protest a method of killing animals that is sanctioned in the Bible, where the kosher laws come from?
People like to say that the Muzzies unconditionally hate the Jews, but eating kosher is perfectly acceptable to Muslims.
By the way, before I get attacked for being a closet liberal, I support Pam Geller’s mission to prevent a 911 victory mosque at Ground Zero.
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posted on
10/16/2010 9:13:11 AM PDT
by
radpolis
(Liberals: You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy)
To: GonzoII
G, why should this make any difference to me at all? Seriously? Doesn’t this sort of nonsense just allow some dhimmi wannabes to write off any anti-Mohammedanism as the work of nut cases?
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posted on
10/16/2010 9:24:42 AM PDT
by
Kolokotronis
(Christ is Risen, and you, o death, are annihilated)
To: Slyfox
***An halal slaughter is barbaric. The animal must be fully conscience while it is having its throat cut.***
The book BUTCHERING, PROCESSING and PRESERVING OF MEAT by Frank G Ashbrook (1955) clearly shows the method for slitting sheep and pig throats for regular slaughter.
It says on page 73 about hogs, “It is best not to stun or shoot a hog before sticking.”
And page 107 clearly tells (with photos on page 108) how to stick a lamb without stunning it.
What people seem to dispise is that muzzleman prayers to an arabic deity are said when the animal is slaughtered. In other words, meat sacrificed to a false Arabic god.
To: rfreedom4u
....but you gotta admit, it was gross! lol
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posted on
10/16/2010 10:01:51 AM PDT
by
cameraeye
(A happy kufir!)
To: Kartographer
>>>>I wonder what Halal lamb wrapped in bacon taste like?
Whatever it tastes like it would only be better with kosher bacon...
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posted on
10/16/2010 10:04:47 AM PDT
by
Keith in Iowa
(FR Class of 1998 | TV News is an oxymoron. | MSNBC = Moonbats Spouting Nothing But Crap.)
To: GonzoII
They would rather mock the millions of Christians and Jews than “offend” the savages. It’s OK for them to start feeding the masses halal meat - they are stupid - they won’t know or care.
Just somebody else rolling out the red carpet for the machete men, the dirty beard crowd, and the headchoppers
To: Kolokotronis
There are those who would have a conscience issue with this.
I think it should be out there for moral comment from clergy.
Also why wouldn't the halal meat be marked as such? Don't people of other religious convictions have the right to know? I think so.
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posted on
10/16/2010 11:19:28 AM PDT
by
GonzoII
("That they may be one...Father")
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