Halal Choices

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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.

[azureline**]

I have read quite a bit about Halal certification..................... yes, some propaganda included.  What I have seen does not equate to $30,000 a month for certification.

Why then, is the meat and the other products, the same price as non halal food? Are we being ripped off by those without Halal certification?

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"We have received a number of letters from people asking if we will be putting the Muslim Halal logo on our food.l     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. .... Dick Smith...... 

Good on ya Dick!

I have posted this before on another Halal thread.

I'm not interested in buying products that have that cost added on to the product.  If an item has the halal cert....you are paying for it.

[azureline**]

There are other things that the company pays for that we absorb the cost of, like council inspections, Health inspections, that costs them as well.

[bushies.girl]

Those inspections are for the benefit of ALL consumers .... not just the "not so silent " minority

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@bushies.girl wrote:

Those inspections are for the benefit of ALL consumers .... not just the "not so silent " minority

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    Spot on.

[debra9275]

I haven't watched your film but I did look at where it came from. It was made by an anti Islamic group called Q society. Scary that such bigoted groups exist in Aust. I suggest that people google them

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 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. .... Dick Smith...... 

Off topic.Unless I dreamt it, which is quite possible, I'm sure I read recently that Dick Smith Foods is going out of business due to lack of sales.

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@debra9275 wrote:
I haven't watched your film but I did look at where it came from. It was made by an anti Islamic group called Q society. Scary that such bigoted groups exist in Aust. I suggest that people google them

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So they are not allowed to have an opinion or thoughts but you are, is that what you are saying..  

Why yes I do believe that it is what you are saying..... 

[debra9275]

Now that is not what I said at all is it?

There's nothing wrong with people having different views, but I'm no fan of any extremist group that goes to great lengths of trying to brain wash people with their bigoted views

I wonder if the Q society is made up of any other specific religion? Just curious as I've never heard of them before