Is supermarket meat generally Halal

[lesstatt]

Reading on line regarding the above and looking at my steak tonight I have found it labelled HMA in the top corner, which apparently is the Halal monitoring authority. Can anyone confirm if this is right or just the daily mail trying to scare us about being taken over without knowing etc

[ApOrbital]

Ask them asda were selling HMA meat.

[anonymous-user]

i worked at a chicken factory and the group supplied most of chicken for supermarkets, and wasn't halal.

[IanCormac]

I used to have a friend who worked at a slaughterhouse and he said that even the halal meat wasn't actually halal, just labelled up that way.

[Magic919]

Asda say it's rubbish. http://your.asda.com/notes-and-briefings/online-ru...

[InductionRoar]

IanCormac said:

I used to have a friend who worked at a slaughterhouse and he said that even the halal meat wasn't actually halal, just labelled up that way.

Excellent.

[dudleybloke]

I don't think their pork is halal.

[davepoth]

For food to be halal it should be marked with a mark something like this:



But it will definitely say halal on it, in Arabic and English.

If it isn't, how are Muslims supposed to know if they're allowed to eat it?

[21TonyK]

Sometimes its very subtle marking. Any size, tucked on the end of ingredients or something. Manufactureres know some people will avoid so don't make it obvious.

Edited by 21TonyK on Sunday 16th October 16:42

[Dogwatch]

dudleybloke said:

I don't think their pork is halal.

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[jamoor]

davepoth said:

For food to be halal it should be marked with a mark something like this:



But it will definitely say halal on it, in Arabic and English.

If it isn't, how are Muslims supposed to know if they're allowed to eat it?

Not really it can be halal and unmarked. The marking doesn't make it halal.

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lesstatt said:

Reading on line regarding the above and looking at my steak tonight I have found it labelled HMA in the top corner, which apparently is the Halal monitoring authority. Can anyone confirm if this is right or just the daily mail trying to scare us about being taken over without knowing etc

It's all halal. You'll find that the pork/bacon etc is usually Turkey substitute.

[lj04]

It's kosher too

[battered]

No it isn't. Some people or sectors of the media might like to suggest that it is to stir up a bit more resentment.

[jamoor]

battered said:

No it isn't. Some people or sectors of the media might like to suggest that it is to stir up a bit more resentment.

Kosher is halal
Halal isn't kosher

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jamoor said:

Kosher is halal
Halal isn't kosher

Other way round I'm led to believe I.e Jewish people can eat halal but Muslims don't eat kosher.

[jamoor]

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Other way round I'm led to believe I.e Jewish people can eat halal but Muslims don't eat kosher.

Frankly you're wrong.

[jas xjr]

i am not a muslim. surely with halal a prayer needs to be recited , so kosher would not be suitable for a muslim

[jamoor]

jas xjr said:

i am not a muslim. surely with halal a prayer needs to be recited , so kosher would not be suitable for a muslim

Kosher slaughter is similar and the prayer is to the same god.

So it's halal.

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jas xjr said:

i am not a muslim. surely with halal a prayer needs to be recited , so kosher would not be suitable for a muslim

Yep - that was what I was told. Plus a friend of mine owns a takeaway in Prestwich, and has a lot of Jewish customers. He told me they told him "halal" was considered kosher. I had assumed (possibly incorrectly) that Jewish people were ok with halal because the physical process was the same, whereas kosher wasn't halal because no prayer was said during slaughter.