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.

[i-need-a-martini]

Lol.colic.

I think most people seem to think that Australian cows merrily skip to their deaths and are gently put to sleep before being seen by a sweet man who holds their hoof for comfort whilst butchering them.

But hahal cows are forced while terrfied to move into an unhygienic room full of muslim sheiks chanting the Koran whilst they have their throat slashed and then they are thrown on a sacrificial slab to drain them of blood.

[icyfroth]

I always buy Sargents.

[colic2bullsgirlore]

My dad was an abattoirs foreman/manager for 35 plus years....way back in 1978. they started halal slaughter of cattle... the

first ion Australia...dad struck up a friendship with the "priest' showing him where to fish and helping him...lets say

assimilate a little. He was working nightshift at the time 2am till 10 am (an

enviable shift becasue the pubs opened at 10)  it took about 3 weeks before he swung the priest who was making 50 cents a

cut to bless the cattle until one morning the priest said in an arabic drawl (expleteives removed)...."today Fatty...today I

come with you to the pub.

dad said "what about the blessing" Ah Fatty" he said "no problems this morning I went to the yards faced mecca and

blessed the whole bloody lot"...... true story I witnessed it and witnessed him legless at out table eating non halal cube roll and striploin many many times

...some "priests" are extremely strict and some just do not give a toss.

The slaughter is not the only "religious" object at an Abattoirs. We slaughtered for a while buffaloes for the Sultan of

Brunei. At loadout a stamp considered sacred had to be used on the boxes to give them fianl approval before export.

The fanatical priest would not let me touch it not the pad or ink that was used to stamp it onto the boxes and protect it as much as their knife or the slaughter chalice.

When the lax priests were on it lived in the boot of my car......... crikey I have "blessed" some in my time....

[channys_mum]

The awful (offal room) room blerk, only to be surpassed by the condemned cage blerk blerk.

When I first moved here 1990 I worked at our local 'meatworks' as a cleaner. Not one of my favourite jobs

[polksaladallie]

I doubt that many Muslim people would eat meat pies.  Their own food, whether it be Asian or Middle Eastern or African, is by far, superior to that muck.

[colic2bullsgirlore]

Nothing like the smell of chlorine first thing in the morning eh......Lol the cage there's nothing like being "locked" into your

work...  lonely job though.... no amount of scrubbing can stop you smelling like a really really bad "egg" fart for days after.

It is true that the stench permeates your skin to the point of turning your fingernails green. It is also true that generally you

cannot smell it but anybody that comes within a bulls roar certainly can  Social pariah comes to mind for those poor souls

that work in there permanently

[polksaladallie]

Not a job most would tolerate, Colic.

Sounds a bit like (only worse than) the permanent smell in the morgue.  Permeates the whole building.  But it doesn't go home with you.

[*lady*godiva*]

It doesn't happen like that in Australia anymore.

That's just too cruel. Only the cows we export to countries less advanced than Australia are subjected to the likes of that now.

We have "Smart Beef" in Australia. Meat just grows on styrofoam trays, already portioned and wrapped ready to be stacked on supermarket shelves. Just a quick wipe over and they're good to go. It took them ages to teach the cows how to link their own sausages. But I surveyed 3 cows just before and they said that once they got the hang of it, it was easier than squeezing out the bottles with the milk in them.

[channys_mum]

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@*lady*godiva* wrote:

It doesn't happen like that in Australia anymore.

That's just too cruel. Only the cows we export to countries less advanced than Australia are subjected to the likes of that now.

We have "Smart Beef" in Australia. Meat just grows on styrofoam trays, already portioned and wrapped ready to be stacked on supermarket shelves. Just a quick wipe over and they're good to go. It took them ages to teach the cows how to link their own sausages. But I surveyed 3 cows just before and they said that once they got the hang of it, it was easier than squeezing out the bottles with the milk in them.

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Oh thank God/Allah/Budah/and others for inovation in Australia.

When I see the cattle truck I won't have to think poor blardy cows anymore 

[bushies.girl]

C M You forgot to mention J C .......