Four'n Twenty Pies are now halal

[ufo_investigations]

I went to 7-Eleven tonight to get a bite to eat, grabbed a Four'n Twenty pie and gosh it was halal.

Traitors!  How can they do this?

I put it back in the warmer then drove to a local Italian restaurant and we had pasta carbonara.

[daydream**believer]

bluecat- its actually quite hard to avoid Halal certified foods. More and more companies are paying the monthly fee. Avoiding them is easier when the product displays the logo but there are now many companies paying the fee who dont show the logo

Spring Gully has also announced that they are also Halal certified.

This is the SA companly that 2 yrs ago was on the verge of going broke and did a big campaign tp get  Aussies to help them out by buying their products.

12 months ago they became Halal certified which means they are now paying up to $30 000 a month for the Halal certification label (which they actually have chosen not to display on their products anyway)

I am wondering what process a pickled onion needs to go through so that Muslims can eat it?

Halal plastic packaging??

" South Australian company is paying one of many competing Islamic Halal Certification “services” (AFIC) an undisclosed monthly fee for its seal of approval. But Scholle Industries Pty Ltd, based in Elizabeth, is a manufacturer of plastic packaging (plastic is derived from oil) and has apparently been able to assure Muslim fraudsters that all oil wells are facing Mecca."

http://www.news.com.au/national/aussie-firms-paying-inflated-price-to-have-halal-certification/story...

[Anonymous]

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@bluecat*dancing wrote:

You don't approve of halal food, then don't buy it. Quite simple, really.  There is no shortage of non-halal food so I'm sure that you won't be going hungry.

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yep. moving to another area would be

one solution unless  all woolworths

supermarkets sell only halal deli chickens ??

does anyone know?

[pct001wine]

Some of the comments expressed here are about as unhealthy as a 4 & 20 pie.

[ufo_investigations]

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@boris1gary wrote:

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@ufo_investigations wrote:

boris why do you avoid answering the question about which direction you pray to?

Every time I ask that, you change the subject. Why is that boris?

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ufoinvestigations, why do you continually ignore any posts that ask about your opinion on the wonderful Pope Francis? I have made my religious (lack of) beliefs clear more than once on cs.

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I don't have any opinion about Pope Francis

[bluecat*dancing]

Its not an issue for me but if it was, I suppose it would be rather disconcerting and alarming. I'm more concerned with the country of origin etc and ingredients.

[azureline**]

There are a small number of abattoirs in Australia that have been granted permission from the relevant State or Territory food authority to conduct religious slaughter without prior stunning – for either Halal or Kosher (Jewish slaughter) purposes.

These ‘approvals’ are effectively exemptions to standard Australian slaughter practice. The proportion of animals slaughtered under these exemptions is very small, but nevertheless that any animals are slaughtered without stunning is of concern to the RSPCA.

For cattle and sheep, the requirements for religious slaughter without prior stunning are set out in a nationally adopted guideline Ritual Slaughter for Ovine (Sheep) and Bovine (Cattle):

• For cattle, stunning is still required but this occurs immediately after the throat is cut. Two separate slaughtermen must be present: one to perform the cut (which must sever both the carotid arteries and jugular veins) and one to perform the stunning.
• For sheep, no stunning is not required except where the animal is distressed or does not rapidly lose consciousness, in which case they must be immediately stunned.
  

The requirements for cattle and sheep are different because cattle take longer than sheep to lose consciousness as they have an extra blood supply to the brain at the back of the neck running along the vertebrae.

All Halal slaughter of chickens in Australia includes prior stunning.

The RSPCA is concerned there are much greater risks of an animal suffering during slaughter without stunning than for conventional slaughter. Slaughtering an animal while fully conscious requires additional handling and restraint and means that the animal will experience pain associated with the throat cut and subsequent bleeding out. For these reasons, the RSPCA is strongly opposed to all forms of slaughter that do not involve prior stunning of the animal.

[bright.ton42]

Any slaughter of animals that does not involve prior stunning is purely inhumane and nothing less.  I don't care what the

religious excuses.  are.  It just sickens me. 

[azureline**]

Stunning isn't pretty either

[Anonymous]

that's right.  always a good idea to

research before making statements such as:

All cattle in Australia are stunned before slaughter.

[rabbitearbandicoot]

hey ufo, stop arguing and answer my last post on the 'hell thread'.