Eat of that which is lawful and wholesome, and follow not the footsteps of the devil. Say, "Lawful for you are [all] good foods and [game caught by] what you have trained of hunting animals which you train as Allah has taught you. So eat of what they catch for you, and mention the name of Allah upon it, and fear Allah. Eat from what is good and lawful, and act righteously.
Indeed, I fully know what you do. The answer is that it depends on the way that the animal is bought up, and how it is slaughtered. Halal meat is the flesh of the animal that has been slaughtered in the way prescribed by Qur'an and Hadeeth; this method is called 'Zabihah'. This procedure was taught to Muslims as the best way to slaughter an animal in order to cause it the least amount of pain. A few important criteria that must be followed in order to slaughter an animal in the Islamic way.
They are as follows:. Picture Credit: Regal Hotel. The general consensus is that everything that is not prohibited is Halal. We'll take a look at the types of Haram foods in more detail below, but for now, here's a list of the types of food that are considered Halal:.
Here's a list of foods that are forbidden in Islam. To knowingly eat or drink any of them is a major sin unless it is an extreme case where no other food or drink is available and the person is in danger of starvation, or for medicinal purposes granted there are no other alternates. The reason that we Muslims only eat Halal meat is for two reasons: to make sure that we are putting into our bodies is healthy and clean, and to make sure that it has been slaughtered in the most humane way possible.
As we saw above, the Zabihah method of slaughter ensures that both of these criteria are met. According to the Muslims in Dietetics and Nutrition, a member group of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, Halal food can never contain pork or pork products that includes gelatin and shortenings , or any alcohol.
Animals must be fed vegetarian diets, which means that many chickens and cows raised on U. Halal animals must be slaughtered by a Muslim, who says a blessing, and by hand, not by machine which is the way many chickens in the U. Only wild-caught fish are Halal certified by MCG standards.
The U. Department of Agriculture, which serves as the reference for nutritional content of food, does not separate out Halal meat or kosher meat, for that matter from other meats for its nutritional information.
Correction : The original version of this article misstated when the ban was enacted. Following an impassioned and at times bitter campaign between council leader Geoff Driver and the local Muslim community, the Conservative-controlled council narrowly voted for the ban.
The decision prompted calls for Muslim students to boycott school lunches and provoked a war of words between Muslim leaders, the council and animal rights groups. The Daily Mail has cited new figures from the Foods Standards Agency which show the number of sheep slaughtered in Britain without being stunned had doubled in six years, to more than three million.
Perhaps surprisingly, according to Al Jazeera eight of the 10 largest suppliers of global halal meat are non-Muslim majority countries, with Brazil, Australia and India leading the way.
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