Halal Butchers

[Smowball]

The only local butchers to me has closed, and is being re-opened with new owners as a Halal butchers next week. Having never been into a Halal butchers myself, what are you thoughts?
Does anybody buy from one? Does the meat taste different in any way?
Or would you you not buy from them at all?

[tonyav]

I wouldn't buy from them at all, Smow.

[Barmaid]

I personally would not knowingly buy meat from a halal butcher because I disagree with the killing method.

[ummmm]

I wouldn't use any of them round here. They all look a mess.

[nailit]

Personally smow, ive ate halal meat on numerous occasions (no difference in taste, a dead animal is still a dead animal) Some of the sanctimonious comments in the past regarding halal meat have been ridiculous. Some halal animals are stunned b4 slaughter, some arnt. If you eat meat...as I do... then an animal HAS to die. No matter which way you look at it...

[woofgang]

Simples eat pork :)

[Barmaid]

And that's the problem nailit, you dont know whether they are stunned or not. Yes an animal has to die, but in my view a humane death should be the order of the day. No different to the white veal thing of the 70s and 80s. Or choosing to buy ethically farmed eggs.

[nailit]

Barmaid, ive worked with people that used to work in a slaughterhouse. I know that a lot of animals are not fully stunned (non halal) before slaughter. Where was stunning just a hundred yrs ago?
If you eat meat then accept that there is no such thing as a cruelty free lunch.

[Barmaid]

But as the consumer I have a right to choose not to buy halal. And as someone who grew up on a farm with its own licensed slaughterhouse, I know a fair bit too.

[nailit]

And how is there such a thing as a 'humane' death? You are killing an animal no matter which way you do it. Is there such a thing as a humane rape? Just because you give the victim a rohypnol before hand doesn't make it any less humane.

[Jackdaw33]

Unless the packaging or name of the shop states halal I wouldn't know the difference.

[nailit]

//I have a right to choose not to buy halal//
100% agree.

[Barmaid]

You cant compare rape with killing an animal for food. Apart from anything else, one is a criminal act punishable by life imprisonment, and one is not........

[nailit]

Not comparing BM, Its an anology.

[Jahulaye]

The meat tastes the same but in fact I might sway towards halal meat that hasn't been stunned as I'm pretty sure the electric shock causes all the muscles to seize up meaning tougher meat.

Spot on nailit, we have to be less hand wringy and more hardy like our cavemen relatives otherwise the doors to vegetarian and veganism are open very wide and are hungry for new recruits.

[237SJ]

There was a comprehensive post on here about this subject, if anyone can find it

[tonyav]

78 questions.
https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/search/?q1=halal

[nailit]

The thing is, people get up in arms about this because its a muslim way of doing things, I get that, I despise religion. BUT animals have to die in order for us to eat them and British slaughter houses are no better than muslim ones in the way that animals are treated. Often they are NOT stunned, they are treated appallingly, and at the end they are killed so that we can enjoy a 'cruel' free McDonalds. If you eat meat...as I do...get over it. Animals suffer so that we can eat.

[-Talbot-]

If you eat meat then accept that there is no such thing as a cruelty free lunch.

Obviously true, nailit but cutting a live animals throat because of a belief in some *** god and *** religion is a step too far.

[nailit]

AND Ive worked on a farm, so I know a little of what I'm talking about.

[Barmaid]

There is no need to "get over it". If I choose to buy locally sourced and butchered meat in preference to halal I have nothing to "get over".