The Islamic Juggernaut Marches On...

[Mich the Tester]

بِسْمِ اللهِ الرَّحْمنِ الرَّحِيمِ

الله أَكْبَر

السلام

[gricerboy]

So why did you say BA was going to introduce halal meat?Either you were being disingenuous or you're a moron who can't understand English or both. Which is it?

Cape Gourmet, BA - what's the difference. Either way it's yet another company helping to maintain a practice which belongs in the dark ages.

AND IF I HAVE A PROBLEM WITH IT I HAVE EVERY RIGHT TO STATE MY CASE WITHOUT BEING CALLED A MORON

[xoggoth]

Re remark about stunning further up.

The halal method of slaughter is exempted from a legal requirement to stun animals first. In halal terms, stunning is undesirable as there is a risk the animal may die before its throat is cut.

The rights and wrongs of halal | Nesrine Malik | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk

[d000hg]

What's wrong with Halal food? It tastes just the same to me. If I was a fast-food chain, I'd much rather have one product everyone would eat than a special 'Halal only' section I have to train all the grunts to understand, etc, etc.

My local Indian is Halal-only, the shame of it! I want a curry full of blood!

[minestrone]

بِسْمِ اللهِ الرَّحْمنِ الرَّحِيمِ

الله أَكْبَر

السلام

I have to test an app in arabic today.

I could wail about that.

[shaunbhoy]

Isn't there some hypocrisy in heartily consuming meat but being precious about how animals are butchered? Apart from lethal injection in a Swiss clinic somewhere, I cannot imagine that any method of execution is particularly pleasant. If you're squeamish about the killing, surely vegetarianism is the only tenable position.

Sums it up for me. This whole anti-halal nonsense is simply a thinly-disguised attempt at masking Islamophobia.

[Mich the Tester]

Sums it up for me. This whole anti-halal nonsense is simply a thinly-disguised attempt at masking Islamophobia.

...which I suspect in many cases (thought not all) is a thinly disguised attempt at masking 'brownskinnedpeopleophobia'.

[gricerboy]

Re remark about stunning further up.



The rights and wrongs of halal | Nesrine Malik | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk

Some very good comments there. I particularly like this one:

A great many commited and energetic people have been working for years to make farming and animal slaughter practices more humane. They've been working against greed and the forces of the market place, but gradually have won the consumer round by reasonable arguments for animal welfare.
Hence the conditions of rearing and dispatch of farmed animals and poultry, although miles from perfect, are getting better bit by bit as the public become more aware.
That the dark ages superstitions of a vocal minority should have any impact on the progress of this is an utter and abominable disgrace.

[Mich the Tester]

I have to test an app in arabic today.

I could wail about that.

Interesting backspace and tab functionality? Confused yet?

[SupremeSpod]

Some very good comments there. I particularly like this one:

A great many commited and energetic people have been working for years to make farming and animal slaughter practices more humane. They've been working against greed and the forces of the market place, but gradually have won the consumer round by reasonable arguments for animal welfare.
Hence the conditions of rearing and dispatch of farmed animals and poultry, although miles from perfect, are getting better bit by bit as the public become more aware.
That the dark ages superstitions of a vocal minority should have any impact on the progress of this is an utter and abominable disgrace.

They're only animals ffs.

They're being killed to provide food.

End of.