Statement from Butterball:
“Our domestic products are not halal certified and thus, do not require any additional on-package labeling. As is common within the industry, when we started to export our products overseas, we applied for and met the necessary requirements of halal processing for a segment of our business. Butterball whole turkeys are produced in a manner that meets those requirements if needed, but only turkeys exported to specific countries are certified halal.”
Yeah the controversy and problem is that they do all their turkeys halal, not just the ones they slap the halal label on for export. This isn’t unique to butterball, bunch of meat packers doing the same thing...
Does that mean turkeys sold in this country are, God forbid, haram?
Sounds like they're in CYA mode to me.
What are you, a buzz cop? We are having a tantrum here. Stay out of it. Don’t cloud the issue with facts.
Statement from Butterball:
“Our domestic products are not halal certified and thus, do not require any additional on-package labeling. As is common within the industry, when we started to export our products overseas, we applied for and met the necessary requirements of halal processing for a segment of our business. Butterball whole turkeys are produced in a manner that meets those requirements if needed, but only turkeys exported to specific countries are certified halal.”
There’s some turkey gobble for you. We have eaten our last Butterball turkey. First its Halal then the veil.