Halal Meat Without Your Knowledge or Consent
Recently, it came to my attention that some of the very few meats we purchase may actually be ritually slaughtered in the name of Allah. We produce most of our own meat here, but due to my back problems, we haven’t raised meat chickens in awhile. We’ve been buying chicken breasts from the store from time to time…No more. No more at all.
Evidently, Tyson and Perdue as well as Butterball turkeys, are all done halal. These can receive halal certification from companies providing it, and then it would receive one of a myriad of little stamps that have mark of the certifying entity on the package. But it doesn’t really have to have that stamp…that is just more of a marketing scheme for Sharia law. The bad thing is that Christians are clearly prohibited from eating halal food in Acts 15:20 and Acts 15:29 and also, those of Hebraic faith are additionally prohibited from consuming this kind of meat as referenced in Revelation 2:14 recounting the story of Balak in the Tanak (Old Testament).
So, having a bag of Great Value chicken breasts in the freezer and being completely incapable of getting an answer from WalMart about whether or not they are slaughtered and prayed over in the name of Allah, has been a nightmare. Two weeks and still no actual answer. Nevermind that they are fed a steady diet of antibiotics and GMO’s -which are no good for anyone, but adding insult to injury, is not being allowed to know if they are literally able to meet halal certification.
Two weeks, and no answer. I wrote the “Global Integrity and Ethics department. They told me, after a week, that it wasn’t an ethical issue. I disagree, but, okay. They recommended I talk to the local store manager. So I tried, but the store manager wouldn’t call me back. So we talked to corporate on the phone and were finally given a name of the frozen food processor who provided the particular bag of chicken breasts we have in the freezer. But that company isn’t existent on the internet.
So, long story short, we are quickly raising up a bunch of meat birds for ourselves and some friends who are also disgusted by the idea of eating things that are ritually sacrificed to Allah.
Now, I do NOT care if grocer’s want to offer a halal section. As long as it is marked as such, I have no problem with it. That is just fine by me, and I think it would be just fine with most people. I simply want to be able to avoid it. Having discovered that Tyson is on the halal certified “okay” list and that they are happy to be halal is a serious issue. (Don’t get me started on the anti-trust and monopoly issues…Grr.)
In my research, I found that outside of meat, halal certification simply means it is permitted to be eaten by those of the Islamic faith. Even in meat, they consider Christian and Kosher slaughter to be completely permissible in their dietary restrictions. So in reality, while I have no problem with those of Islamic faith having clearly labeled halal meat, there is actually not any need for it to exist. They do not actually require that meat be prayed over in the name of Allah. But, for meat to be “halal” it must be prayed over in the name of Allah, and it must be killed by the blood running out of a throat slit all the way across, but not severing the head entirely. There seems to be some disagreement in Islam about that in chickens.
At any rate, this is something that I think people should be aware of as I presume there may be many who do not wish to eat any halal meat. I’m aware that it doesn’t bother a lot of people, and for those who it doesn’t bother, okay.
Here is an article by Pamela Geller on the issue -Please click on the bold type to go to the article:
This is an outrage. If the roles were were reversed and it was Muslims being ignored, Muslims whose dietary religious traditions being violated, all hell would break loose.
Pamela Geller: USDA Ignores AFDI Petition to Require All Halal Meat Be Labeled as Such
A great deal of meat sold in this country is halal but is not labeled is such. It’s a scandal — but an established practice: meat packers generally do not separate halal meat from non-halal meat, and do not label halal meat as such. We attempted to right that wrong. But the U.S. Department of Agriculture has for four years now ignored, shelved, or just plain refused to rule on our petition.
As many Americans do not, for a variety of reasons, wish to eat halal meat, back in February 2012, my organization, the American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI), filed a citizen petition with the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service, asking that a regulation be enacted to ensure that all halal food be clearly labeled as halal. In April 2012, we agreed not to publicize our petition in order to give the agency some space to review the document without any pressure from the public.
On May 11, 2012, we had a face-to-face meeting in the USDA offices with top FSIS officials. We discussed this petition and the need for halal meat to be clearly labeled. Present at this meeting was Dan Engeljohn, a longtime USDA official who is now Assistant Administrator for the Office of Policy and Program Development (OPPD) in the FSIS. This position makes him responsible for FSIS regulations.
Engeljohn and company have now had four years to rule on our petition. They’ve done absolutely nothing.
As far back as October 2010, I reported on little-noted but explosive revelations that much of the meat in Europe and the United States was being processed as halal without the knowledge of the non-Muslim consumers who bought it.
Then in November 2011, I penned an article that caused a firestorm across the political spectrum, revealing that Butterball turkeys were all halal, but were not labeled as such. Heads exploded on the left – not over Butterball’s deception, but over my having the audacity to reveal it. And the clueless and compromised on the right were enraged as well: John Podhoretz tweeted, “I’d tell Pamela Geller to put a sock in it, but the sock might be halal.”
I was, of course, excoriated as a racist Islamophobic anti-Muslim bigot. In reality, however, we have no objection to halal meat being sold, as long as it is clearly labeled as such, and as long as non-halal meat is available. Meat that is halal must be labeled as such.
Our petition regarding ritual slaughter was posted on the FSIS website on February 14, 2012. It was a “ritual slaughter” petition that applied to all types of ritual slaughter: kosher, halal, etc. Every type of ritual slaughter holds some type of concern for some segment of the consuming public. We were not asking the USDA to single out a specific type of slaughter when dealing with this issue; our petition did not single out one type of ritual slaughter over another, nor did it wish to discriminate against a specific religious group.
We just wanted all meat that had been ritually slaughtered to be clearly labeled to that effect. Kosher meat is routinely marked accordingly; why not halal meat?
Our petition has since been taken down from the FSIS site, but here is a screenshot via the wayback machine.
This is strictly a false labeling and consumer choice issue. Religious people – Jews, Muslims, and others — should have the freedom to have meat and poultry products produced in a way that meets their needs. Conversely, consumers who don’t wish to consume ritually slaughtered products have a right to sufficient labeling information.
Under the current system, ritually slaughtered meat and poultry is not sufficiently labeled for consumers to be able to choose exactly what they want. Labeling can be misleading and untruthful in what it does not say if key facts are omitted. Consumers should have the ability to be able to choose for themselves if they want to eat ritually slaughtered products. Some Christians see the New Testament prohibiting the consumption of meat sacrificed to idols, and some would view halal meat as meeting that definition. But under current law, they have no way to avoid eating it.
Just as those who buy meat and poultry products labeled halal or kosher should have a reasonable expectation that the meat they’re buying was actually produced in that manner, so also those of us who don’t want to eat halal meat for whatever reason should also have a reasonable assurance that meat not labeled halal was not actually slaughtered in accordance with Sharia rules. As halal slaughter increases in the US, the likelihood of unknowingly buying meat sacrificed under the present system also increases.
This is a matter of simple justice and common sense. So why is the USDA stonewalling on our petition?
Pamela Geller is the President of the American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI), publisher of PamelaGeller.com and author of The Post-American Presidency: The Obama Administration’s War on America and Stop the Islamization of America: A Practical Guide to the Resistance. Follow her on Twitter here. Like her on Facebook here.
– See more at: http://pamelageller.com/2016/08/the-meat-you-are-eat-is-halal-usda-wont-label-it.html/#sthash.y7f26RcP.dpuf
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