Halal Food Products in the US (as of 2010)

Halal Food Info via Scribd ^ | 6 June 2010 (updated at 1st post) | Unknown

[combat_boots]

In the name of Allah, Most gracious, Most merciful.

THEY ENJOIN GOOD AND FORBID EVIL AND RUSH IN EMULATING EACH OTHER IN

GOOD DEEDS, THESE ARE THE RIGHTEOUS PEOPLE. AL-QURAN: AL-IMRAN (114)

 This is the List of Latest verified Halal Food Products in US Supermarkets. For more and up to date

information go to the website official website of MCGhttp:/ / www.muslimconsumergroup.com

 Only Halal products are written, other variant of same brands or products may be haram. For further

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[Skip Ripley]

I guess I can understand that...I don’t care if was dedicated to Allah or Chuck E Cheese...it’s just food to me. But, I can certainly respect a differing view...

[wtd]

Quoting dbrow: "Halal food is also prepared a certain way, but it is prayed over in a way that dedicates it to Allah. A Muslim must do the "preparation" and dedication." The hocus pocus islamic invocation is meaningless to me, however, the exclusive employment of muslim employees "for preparation", particularly their heartless methods of slaughter, is not to be tolerated when it comes to our food supplies.

[netmilsmom]

I was shocked at first, then it just got to be something that we live with.

I’m blessed that we live in a Chaldean area and many of the Arabs go to Mass with us. We go to their businesses and eat great middle eastern food.

[RoadKingSE]

Isn’t the English word for halal, “dumpster”?

[RoadKingSE]

Isn’t the English word for halal, “dumpster”?

[RoadKingSE]

Isn’t the English word for halal, “dumpster”?

[Redcitizen]

I’ve seen halal mutton in a can at a grocery store on an indian reservation. Halal food shows up everywhere.

[irishtenor]

1 Corinthians 10:23-31.

[353FMG]

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2011/05/a_warning_to_america_geert_wil.html

[mountainbunny]

What is worse is that some of what I have previously bought and used is so dedicated without my knowledge, e.g., Coleman chicken at Costco.

I'm trying to figure out why it would matter one way or the other, especially since you weren't aware of it at the time.

Do you think that food undergoes some actual (material) change when it is prayed over to make it halal?

How could it change in a way that could harm you?

[MissDairyGoodnessVT]

thanks for the link btw, earlier today i was looking up on Wiki “extremist groups”/North America

NOT ONE MUSLIM extremist group on the list and you & I know for sure they exist!

[DBrow]

“particularly their heartless methods of slaughter,”

Same as kosher (Kashrut) slaughter in terms of methods and tools. Plus, a Jew must perform the slaughter. Other kosher food can be prepared by a non-Jew (I think, as I doubt dairies hire exclusively Jews), but meat and fowl requires a Jew. So if halal offends you, avoid meat with the kosher symbol too.

[combat_boots]

Well,

#1 is from the Corinthians reference as posted above.
#2 is that I don’t want to support Moslem-owned businesses, e.g., Caribou Coffee.
#3 is that labeling is not apparent, either at Costco, or on the front of the packaging, or even in a halal section like there would be for ‘organic’ foodstuffs. It is a question of truth in advertising.
#4 I have studied ME culture for nearly 50 years. Subterfuge is their stock in trade. I do like ME food—when I know it’s ME food. I would not serve halal food to my family, though, and especially on a Christian holiday.
#5 I almost did serve ham, and was going to do so, but the intestinal sensitivity in my immediate family has become so touchy as to be very nearly absolute in its intolerance for such foods as ham, even though we like the taste.
#6 It just plain makes me mad, at myself for not inspecting the labels, for not realizing that everything is so intermingled even with respect for food that I can’t trust anything I buy to be what I assume it is. Next up, I suppose, will be halal Corn Flakes.
#7 I view this as subliminal. I remember the tapes used in stores with subliminal voices urging people to buy. They were outlawed.
#8 This makes commerce and the Department of Commerce look like it endorses a designation of halal as somehow more acceptable than kosher or just plain old American. That sneaky little symbol on the back down by the tiny ingredients listing, instead of being front and center, is not right.

The other half has said it’s OK and that maybe they were Muslim chickens.

I, on the other hand, was raised with the tradition of 7 sweets and 7 sours on the table, in the tradition of the Pennsylvania Dutch. Fish on Fridays. The whole tradition. Apparently, my mother in her youth could not cook on Sunday, so all preparation had to be done by Saturday night. I must maintain some of that.

Lastly, the intent of praying over food to dedicate it to a false god is not that conceptually different to me than the consecration of the Eucharist, enabling men to ingest and become part of Christ by material change and bloodline.

OK. I’m a Puritan, after all. Then again, I am honestly descended from them. /rant off

[chris_bdba]

THe way it is killed.They slit the throat and let the animal bleed out.

[Tucker39]

Apostle Paul said that when food is set before you, don’t ask where it came from. Give thanks unto God for it and eat it in Jesus’ Name. Don’t worry about the imam’s empty powerless vain ineffectual chant over the meat. As a Spirit-filled Christian, that imam’s chant over the meat had no more effect than if he’d whistled Dixie over it, spun around three times and yelled Bingo! IMHO

1Corinthians 8:4 As concerning therefore the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice unto idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is none other God but one.

[mountainbunny]

Thank you for your answer.

If you see it as an issue, then of course you should follow your heart and mind and do what you need to do for yourself and your family.

Our family has so many food-related issues as it is (a few allergies, but Celiac disease is the big one) that if we had to add any more restrictions, I’m not sure exactly what we’d eat :D

My husband and I hunt, so we don’t purchase a lot of meat to start with. The meat we do purchase comes from a CSA, and I don’t think they are Kosher or Halal. I’ll look next time I think of it.

[AmericanInTokyo]

Well put! And hilarious to boot!

Say, just curious, are you from the south? I detect a kind of wonderful Alabamian humor there...but I could be wrong.. ;-)

[dixiechick2000]

I buy nothing but beef and pork at Costco.

That being said, we have a lot of food places in my area bragging that they are halal with their signage.

[Gene Eric]

>> Apostle Paul said that when food is set before you, don’t ask where it came from...

Except for the simple fact that the food-providing jackasses you’re referring to kill Christians in the name of their so-called religion.

Islam has nothing on Christianity. Islam is a war plan; one that’s aim is to eradicate the endowments of Christ.

[wtd]

There you go - lumping both of these ritual slaughtering rites together. Halal slaughtering has less stringent requirements than kosher slaughtering methods because halal is less of a religious requirement than of enforcing sharia norms on all of society. . . Muslim and non-Muslim alike. No Jew enforces kosher slaughter upon others. Halal, on the other hand (while you still have one) IS routinely imposed on non-muslims. As for kosher slaughter limiting the process to Jews is nonsence. Tell that to Sholom Rubashkin of Agriprocessors. "Former Manager of Iowa Slaughterhouse Is Acquitted of Labor Charges" via NY Times Now why would the fed drop these charges? Publicity of such inconvenient truths re feds support/enabling of muslim refugees entering this country in large numbers is to be avoided at all costs.

On August 5, 2010, lawyers for Rubashkin filed a motion for new trial after having discovered, that Judge Reade was more involved in planning the 2008 immigration raid at Agriprocessors′ Postville plant than previously disclosed, claiming that “federal law and U.S. Supreme Court rulings would have required Reade to remove herself from the trial.”[29] On October 27, 2010, Judge Reade denied the motion.[30] On January 3, 2011, lawyers for Rubashkin filed an appeal for a new trial with the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis. In the brief, four arguments for a new trial were made. According to the brief, government documents that surfaced after Rubashkin's conviction and not made available to the defense showed that Reade was involved in the planning for the federal immigration raid of the Postville plant in May 2008, which it sees as collusion with the prosecution. Reade′s “excessive coziness” with prosecutors planning the raid raised doubts about her impartiality in the case, the brief claims, and states that as a result Reade should have recused herself, and that Rubashkin is entitled to a new trial or, at a minimum, an evidentiary hearing.[31] Following the filing of this appeal, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL) and Washington Legal Foundation (WLF) filed amicus briefs supporting Rubashkin′s appeal for a new trial.[32] What has united the three groups is the involvement of the judge in the case with the prosecution, as argued by Rubashkin’s defense team, which, according to ACLU′s Iowa legal director Randall Wilson, “immediately gave the appearance of unfairness.”[33] The ACLU brief says: “Mr. Rubashkin’s conviction should be vacated and he should get his ‘day in court,’ with a tribunal that is not an arm of the prosecution. Due Process demands it. The Separation of Powers Doctrine demands it.”[34] However, the ACLU still sees in Rubashkin someone who exploited illegal workers and underage labor, according to Wilson, but sees these as separate issues from the matter of legal principle argued in its brief.[33] Subsequent to the filing of the appeal, in a rare move, the government not only denied consent to the filing of the three amicus briefs, they filed a Resistance with the Eight Circuit, effectively attempting to block the court from accepting the brief.[35] Shortly following a law review[36] published in Bloomberg Law Reports[37], the government filed a brief to withdraw their opposition to the amicus briefs.[38] On March 11, 2011, the government filed their response to Mr. Rubashkin's appeal and on April 18, 2011, Rubashkin's lawyers filed their reply brief. Oral argument before the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals is expected in the week of June 13, 2011.