www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/life/food/article4333133.eceI don't eat meat and am aware that a lot of meat in this country has been produced with dubious animal welfare standards, but for halal abattoirs to trade on the fact that their meat is 'stun free' ie the animal dies in panic and agony and they promote this, seems very wrong to me.The British Veterinary Association objects to it too. Boycott who you like, but theres a hellish world of animal abuse going on in farms that produce cheap meat. The actual slaughter must be blessed relief for many. Coles sells a range of Australian beef, chicken and lamb which are prepared to Islamic halal specifications. Coles Chicken Their PR says they are not halal certified, however you need to ask who supplies their chicken as in many cases it comes from Baiada, Steggles, Ingham, etc which all have halal certification... despite being RSPCA Approved! Halal products represent one of the fastest growing segments of U.S. beef exports. This is page 2 of 8 (This thread has 197 messages.). Usually thus means all the value ranges in supermarkets and an awful lot of the chicken on sale. Less than three percent of the population seeks to run the nation. There are two types of halal meat, stunned and non-stunned.You'd be hard-pressed to buy the non-stunned stuff from anywhere other than a specialist Halal butcher in a predominantly Muslim area.In Tooting, South London, you can see butchers with 'Guaranteed non-stunned' signs up in their windows, to differentiate themselves from the places that sell stunned Halal meat which the fundamentalists devout don't consider 'proper' Halal. Find out what Mumsnet users thought of Echo by Lloyd’s Pharmacy. The conveyor belt firstly goes over a big water bath which has an electric current run thought it. They have an irrational hatred of things that are different combined with a woefully flawed understanding of reality. I'm not suggesting that people shouldn't eat meat, that's a choice people make for themselves. Just to be clear, it's not halal meat you need to boycott, it's any meat where you disagree with the slaughter methods. We're planning and adding new stops every day. Chickens start in a pen and are hung feet-first onto a conveyor belt. To ask why are part time workers disliked? 'Humane slaughter' is an oxymoron.Animals are rarely properly stunned before slaughter,those who are often start to regain consciousness before being killed. Usually thus means all the value ranges in supermarkets and an awful lot of the chicken on sale. Hatred for halal over the rest of the meat industry which is equally cruel is just racism. It's all food slaughtered in this way. Calls for Muslims to boycott halal meat during weekends in July appear to have fallen on deaf ears. The Sydney Morning Herald. To boycott establishments that sell halal meat? MORRISONS FRESH LAMB IN THE CLEAR All Morrisons beef, fresh lamb, fresh British chicken and frozen chicken is non-halal. COMPLAIN to COLES & the RSPCA Apart from the fact this Secret Sale of halal Ritually Slaughtered Meat tricks Shoppers into buying it … Here we go again!The RSPCA have found that the vast majority of halal meat in the UK is pre-stunned therefore to boycott establishments that sell pre-stunned halal meat would be rather silly.By all means protest against non-stun halal meat if you wish but do try and check your facts before you start frothing! Boycott halal is about freedom of choice. *If an animal is slaughtered in an abattoir then it dies in fear, pain and panic irrespective. How are you going to decide which shops are Halal meat free? Time for businesses to choose—placate a minority or serve the majority! Halal means permissible for Muslims to eat or use, and the Facebook page “‘Boycott Halal in Australia” has 41,000 supporters. Halal Fast Food Outlets welcome to Nando's worldwide. The protest, organised by the May 1 Movement, blocked the main entrance to the temporary warehouse throughout the afternoon. “Halal” is the Arabic word for “permissible”, and defines the food that Muslims are allowed to eat. I boycott halal restaurants on the animal welfare issue. I've been boycotting celery for over 30 years and it's still bloody everywhere. Locally, supermarket shoppers at Coles delicatessens are buying many fresh halal meats. It is absolutely OUTRAGEOUS. Often the halal status of a company is hidden, every time you purchase a halal certified product, you make a small donation to a religion that you might not want to be part of and the end beneficiary of this money is yet to be disclosed. Just to be clear, it's not halal meat you need to boycott, it's any meat where you disagree with the slaughter methods. If they sell tinned food I don't see how you can be sure the meat in them isn't Halal (maybe it would be on the tin).You can buy almost everything (with very little choice) from Abel and Cole or health food shops but you might go bankrupt very quickly. As the chickens heads hit the water, then are stunned.The conveyor belt then takes them onto the slaughter room where they have their throats cut and bleed to death pretty instantly. BOYCOTT COLES for serving up HALAL MEAT Products COLES Fettayleh Halal Meat Counter - halal certified by SICHMA See this page from 13000Halal who supply COLES Fettayleh - SCROLL DOWN the page about CAMEL BURGERS to see all the COLES Stores that are serving up Meat that has been HALAL CERTIFIED by SICHMA (see next post about that Halal Authority) Halal certification does not involve any form of blessing or ritual of the actual product or production line…’ Woolworth told me to buy Promite, Marmite or Mightmite instead. 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