Halal...

[ummmm]

I was reading on the net yesterday that Halal butchers are much cheaper than supermarkets or non Halal butchers.

Anyone shop in a Halal butchers?

Would you recommend them?

[tamborine]

lol....ummmm, I can imagine your hot lips on its udders :)

[237SJ]

ummmm I was brought up drinking milk from the cow. We used to have green top bottles in our village. The green top meant the milk was untreated. The milk was just filtered, nothing else. My dad sold the filters. They looked like coils of draught excluder. There was about 3 inches of cream on the top which was great on the morning Readybrek :-)

[RATTER15]

237sj, I remember it well, but virtually undrinkable wen they were silage fed, tasted bloody horrible!!!

[237SJ]

Ratter, I couldn`t tell whether they were silage fed. The farmer in our village who did the milk round must have fed his cattle on hay in the winter. I don`t ever remember the smell of silage wafting around (and let`s face it, you would smell it wouldn`t you)

[ummmm]

Lol Tambo...I wondered if someone would think I was drinking straight from the cow. I had the image in my head as well :-(

Father in law used to just come in with a massive jug straight from the cow....I couldn't drink it :-(

[237SJ]

The nearest silo to us was at Berrydown Cross. Is it still there?

[ladybirder]

Ratter you haven't seen it on sale because it's not labelled. I bet you're eating it and don't know it. We're not getting Halal meat because there is a demand for it we are getting it because it is cheaper to slaughter all animals the one way. As a small percentage of the population will only eat Halal, and a large part of the rest don't care by what method the animal died and will therefore eat Halal as well, then the decision is made. That's why NZ lamb is all Halal, it's not cost effective to use different methods of slaughter and they know we will still buy it. But as I said it won't be labelled as such in the supermarket. My garden centre has recently opened a butchers department and I asked the butcher if their lamb was Halal. He looked horrified and said No No, it comes from the farm up the road and is slaughtered locally. That may be the case but that doesn't mean it wasn't Halal slaughtered I said to him. He agreed and is going to check it out for me. If the butcher doesn't even know ......

[RATTER15]

237SJ, not sure about silos but allways loads of silage stacked on farms in the area, its a very distinctive taste.

[ummmm]

I done a thread about the treatment of fish. When you see them land a catch and kick them about the deck. And sizing live prawns...even watched Hugh eat a live scallop. Now that's inhumane...