Halal Choices

[nero_bolt]

Halal Choices..... are you concerned with the halal slaughter of animals such as beef, lamb and poultry.

To be halal certified the animal must be facing Mecca, have its throat cut while still alive and then ritually sacrificed by a Muslim who recites a prayer dedicating the slaughter to Allah.

Because the animals must be slaughtered alive, stun guns are often not an option as they can kill an animal before the heart pumps out all the blood.

http://www.halalchoices.com.au/index.html

Do you read the lables to see whats HALAL or not HALAL  Do you purchase HALAL products or not? 

Thoughts on the slaughter of animals for HALAL 

http://www.halalchoices.com.au/what_is_halal.html

Products That Are Halal Certified

http://www.halalchoices.com.au/product_lists_halal.html

http://www.halalchoices.com.au/product_lists.html

Products That Are Not Halal Certified 

http://www.halalchoices.com.au/product_lists_nonhalal.html

Interesting youtube    https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=mSP47FAtn6U  

The presenter is Kirralie Smith, an average Aussie housewife, who does the weekly grocery shopping. 

Ms Smith became aware, then alarmed, about the Islamic halal certification on so many of her shopping list items. She looked for a list of halal certified foods so she could make informed choices about what to buy and what to avoid.

There was no such list, yet so many supermarket products were stamped 'halal certified'.

Ms Smith started to do her own investigation, calling supermarket chains, grocery producers - even the halal certifiers - all so she could be better informed when she went to do her shopping.

She has personally contacted over 500 companies to determine their halal certification status.

What she discovered was bigger than big. 

Kirralie Smith is the founder and director of HalalChoices. Kirralie holds a BA in Theology and lives with her family in coastal New South Wales. What started as an attempt to put together a shopping list for her family led to two years of research into halal certification schemes in Australia; as well as our most comprehensive resource concerning these tax-like schemes now imposed on the majority of our food products.

[nero_bolt]

Dick Smith Foods...... Well done

http://www.dicksmithfoods.com.au/media/news/halal-certification-our-food

We have received a number of letters from people asking if we will be putting the Muslim Halal logo on our food.
 
To acquire Halal certification, payment is required to the endorsing body and involves a number of site inspections of both our growers and processors in order to ensure that our practices comply with the conditions of Halal certification.

It is important to note that this does not reflect the quality of the food being processed or sold – it only means that the products are approved as being prepared in accordance with the traditions of the Muslim faith.
 
We are aware of an increasing number of large companies both in Australia and overseas, such as Kraft and Cadbury, who have obtained accreditation to use the Halal logo.

We don’t believe they have done this because of any religious commitment but rather for purely commercial reasons. Perhaps these large organisations can afford to do this.

While we have a choice however, we would prefer to avoid unnecessarily increasing the cost of our products in order to pay for Halal accreditation when this money would be better spent continuing to support important charitable causes where assistance is greatly needed.

[the_great_she_elephant]

Interesting to note in both cases the decisions  were based on commercial consideration and not idealogy.

[i-need-a-martini]

And yet they still celebrate it as an anti-muslim stance.

[polksaladallie]

Dick Smith foods are soon to be no more.  If he can't afford to produce, he can't afford the label.  That's his reason.  Nothing to do with Islam.

[*mrgrizz*]

time for the injection of some facts.

the company i work for pays the following.

halal certification....$524 per year.

halal audit( once yearly) $120 per hour. maximum of 6 hours. may take longer.

if we request a halal certificate for a load we are going to export we pay 30 cents per carton......which is equal to 1.5 cents per kilo.

we do not need a halal certificate for meat sold domestically.

[debra9275]

Thank you MrGrizz, $524 per year is a far cry from $30,000 per month (wherever that figure came from)

[cherry*135]

Makes Pickering look a fool, whether it originated from him or not, he published it (up to $30 000 per MONTH) and his devotees ran with that.

Scaremongering and propaganda.

[*mrgrizz*]

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@debra9275 wrote:
Thank youMrGrizz, $524 per year is a far cry from $30,000 per month (wherever that figure came from)

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it may well be $30000 per month. we avoid Indonesia. they are corrupt.

at the rate mentioned above it would be 2000000 kilo of meat.

or it could have been for something completely different, a import permit

[*mrgrizz*]

actually us exporting and having Halal certification makes meat cheaper for Australians.

[cherry*135]

Maleny Dairies - tourist attraction and coffee shop - no export market.

For your info nero-wulf MILK IS CONSIDERED HALAL by Islamic culture.

Courier mail

November 3, 2014

"But critics said the move could inflame ethnic tensions and was also absurd, since milk is already considered Halal, or allowed by Islamic culture.

“Well done Maleny for feeling the need to highlight this fact and create an outlet for the Islamophobes and the un-Australians to out themselves,’’ one woman posted.

Mr Hopper said he did not regret the posting but the decision had created more work for his business because a number of offensive comments had to be deleted.