Halal meat

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Originally Posted by thulfi

And in the grand scheme of things, eating halal unknowingly is hardly a biggy when you're probably munching on a horse or god

Horse is yummy. Never tried god.

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Originally Posted by timwilky

My cousin was a pork butcher. The pigs walked in downstairs and were carried out of the shop upstairs. Everything but the squeek got used. Until the rules got changed a few years ago. He slaughtered all his own. One of my local butchers still runs a slaughterhouse. If you care about the quality and welfare of your meat. Buy from a local butcher who can tell you how/when it was slaughtered, what farm it came from etc.

Many butchers outsource their slaughtering to a slaughterhouse these days. So you still don't know for sure.

[QUOTE=timwilky;2953928]Meat is meat, Halal, Kosher whatever!

Everything but the squeek got used..........[\QUOTE]


Is a pigs @rse pork??









Not the hole of it!!!!!!


"Gas it w###a".........

[timwilky]

Originally Posted by ophic

Many butchers outsource their slaughtering to a slaughterhouse these days. So you still don't know for sure.

Yes, but when I think of the butchers 2 miles away, they take in contract slaughter work to top up their own demand. Costly having to have a meat inspector in place.

but it is a small local slaughter house. they take their time. right first time. Not like the local massive industrial slaughter/butcher/packager where it is all industrialised.and half a dozen different supermarkets names go on the package.

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Originally Posted by timwilky

Not like the local massive industrial slaughter/butcher/packager where it is all industrialised.and half a dozen different supermarkets names go on the package.

I did a project at school on meat and visited one of these in Corby. They wouldn't show me the actual slaughter, but some of the cows were still kicking and struggling as they were hoisted up by the back legs onto a hanging conveyor belt for the butchering.

You'd think they were still alive until you realised they had no heads at this point.

I can't help but think that most of the controversy around Halal meat is thinly veiled racism. There is no good reason to be upset by it, excepting possibly finding it against your own religion.

I personally couldn't care what your shaman or witch doctor felt the need to utter during the slaughter.

As many other people have said quality of life is much more important that whether the slaughter was carried out with stunning or not (although personally I think its slightly more humane).

That being said, I don't trust anyone who doesn't eat bacon

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Originally Posted by SvNewbie

There is no good reason to be upset by it, excepting possibly finding it against your own religion.

That's a pretty big exception.

Originally Posted by ophic

That's a pretty big exception.

Hmm, we've had the religion argument on the org before. To me they are all nothing more than stupid rituals and bedtime stories. But that's just my opinion.

However, plenty of people I've seen reposting these stories couldn't give a crap about religion or animal welfare for that matter.

[Littlepeahead]

Nothing wrong with eating horse if you know that's what you are eating. Or snake, hare, peacock, crocodile and tree grubs - I've tried all of those (but I still won't eat bacon). The point was I knew what I was eating, no one was selling me crocodile while claiming it was chicken, whereas Asda or whoever were selling beef lasagne made of horse, which is where the whole food chain becomes questionable. I think overall it was a good thing as it made people start asking about the origins of their meat.

Saying that, crocodile steaks are pretty cheap compared to fillet steak, but leather handbags and shoes reasonably priced yet a crocodile skin handbag costs an absolute fortune, well over £2k for a nice one.

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Originally Posted by Littlepeahead

Saying that, crocodile steaks are pretty cheap compared to fillet steak, but leather handbags and shoes reasonably priced yet a crocodile skin handbag costs an absolute fortune, well over £2k for a nice one.

Maybe most crocs have rubbish skin?

What if it was alligator skin and they sold it as crocodile?