Thousands of Muslim students in Lancashire may boycott meals in local schools if halal meat is banned in those schools. The Council’s concern about halal comes from the cruelty with it mandates that animals be slaughtered. British experts have stated that halal-slaughtered animals are dying in “agony.”
Lancashire Councilor leader Geoff Driver stated:
“In my view, it is abhorrent to kill an animal without stunning it because of the distress it causes. We will bring it to a full council meeting where members can vote with their conscience.”
Here we see, once again, a clash of civilizations on “barbaric practices,” a term that is deemed politically incorrect. Western thought mandates equality of rights for all regardless of creed and race, and also calls for compassion toward animals and concern for their well-being.
We may hope that PETA (People For the Ethical Treatment of Animals) will weigh in on halal slaughter practices.
Earlier in the year, three halal slaughtermen were charged with animal cruelty after they were secretly filmed by an animal rights group committing “systematic” acts of abuse against sheep and goats.
“Muslims Threaten Boycott as Council Votes on Banning Halal Meat in School”, by Liam Deacon, Breitbart, September 18, 2017:
Lancashire Councillors are to be given a free vote on whether school children across the country should be fed ‘halal’ meat from animals that have had their throats slit without being stunned.
If the local representatives vote to ban the meat in schools, thousands of Muslim children could boycott meals in Lancashire schools as they did back in 2012 when a similar restriction was introduced.
Council leader Geoff Driver told the Lancashire Telegraph: “In my view, it is abhorrent to kill an animal without stunning it because of the distress it causes. We will bring it to a full council meeting where members can vote with their conscience.”
Pendle Central Tory Cllr Joe Cooney added: “I have grave reservations and will vote against the banning of halal meat that is not pre-stunned.”
Unstunned halal meat is currently supplied to 12,000 pupils at 27 schools in Blackburn, Nelson, Burnley, Rawtenstall, Hyndburn, Clitheroe, and Preston.
The council will still supply halal meals for Muslim students if the ban is brought in, but the animals will be studded before slaughter. However, this fails to meet the Lancashire Council of Mosques’ (LCM) interpretation of Islamic law.
On their website, the LCM lists their strict “criteria” for producing meat they consider genuinely halal, including “the slaughterman must be a Muslim,” and, the “process must avoid all forms of stunning and the animal must be alive prior to slaughter.”
LCM chairman and Burnley resident Abdul Hamid Qureshi said: “We thought this issue has been resolved in 2012 and it is unfortunate it has been raised again.
“This is personal crusade by Cllr Driver. For him, it is matter of feelings but for Muslims, this is matter of faith.
“The LCM position is and always has been that stunning before slaughter means the meat is not halal and there is argument about whether pre-stunning causes more or less distress to animals that slaughter without it.”…..
Thousands of Muslim children at 45 county council schools in the area refused to eat meals containing the meat, and the decision was eventually reversed.
In November 2016, campaigners handed a 100,000 signature petition to Downing Street calling for a ban on halal and kosher (Jewish) slaughter.
Earlier in the year, three halal slaughtermen were charged with animal cruelty after they were secretly filmed by an animal rights group committing “systematic” acts of abuse against sheep and goats.
Sarah says
Uh, so let them sulk and bring their lunches from home, then? I fail to see what kind of threat they dangle, by stamping their feet, throwing tantrums over boycotts?
I guess its sad for whomever makes a profit off providing school lunches to those schools – but I’m sure they’ll live. Ultimately – we’re talking a minority of the overall population, even if they do breed children like flies.
Sarah says
As a side note – I’m frankly amazed that there aren’t any halal meat suppliers out there who say they’re halal, have sufficient cover to pretend to be slaughtering animals in the approved halal methods – but are doing nothing of the sort. Western style butchering methods are barely maintained regarding cruelty to animals in the slaughterhouses – and that’s with strict regulations in place to monitor it.
Its the West. And capitalism. The almighty dollar and reaping the profits always come first. Its not like Western governments are doing too much in the way of regulating on who slaughters via the halal method, the most appropriately.
Good Lord, if it weren’t for the various national and international regulators, we’d all be getting fed toxic amounts of arsenic in our foodstuffs’ if it saved these companies a few cents! Surely someone out there is already scamming this. They need to get the contract on the school food! Stat!
Seriously though – if you cannot countenance the thought of eating meat unless its been forced to face in a specific direction before having its throat brutally slit, whilst some idiot babbles some nonsense over it in its death throes – then you have far bigger problems at hand, than worrying about whether your food has the Ole Moe stamp of approval on it, or not.
Krazy Kafir says
The threat is the cowardly dhimmi stooges who are usually in power can’t wait to yield to any Muslim whining . Dhimmi’s knees bend so easily.
MSW says
The fact is, muslims don’t need halal meat or anything to be certified halal either in a non-muslim country. They can eat what we eat. Having halal slaughter and certification of foods is to control the food supply, jobs only for muslims and have us all under the yoke of sharia law. I’d let them f…g starve.
Jack Diamond says
This is exactly correct, halal is a part of Islamization. Halal is like the hijab (or the mosque) not personal choices but religious regulations under Shari’a, and part of this hijrah migration doctrine which is meant (solely) to colonize.
The meat of the Jews and Christians is lawful for Muslims to eat. Qur’an 5:3. The point of halal is to further Islam, to make demands upon the infidels, to be followed by more and more demands and accommodations, and push push push Shari’a. At the beginning in seemingly harmless ways. So, you get halal related industries employing only Muslims. The schools find it easier to just make all the meat halal. Money rolls into Muslim hands and further finances the expanding Muslim ummah, money also goes into zakat, which mandates the funding of mujahideen.
The animal cruelty is terrible. The idea of eating meat consecration to Allah and Islam is repulsive. But there is much more to halal than a custom.
katherine says
That’s correct thinking. Why should everyone be forced to eat food that had been prepared and prayed over according to Satanic Ritual – AND forced to pay for its compulsory halal certification as well ?
Does anyone read ‘Straight and Crooked Thinking’ anymore ?
gravenimage says
Yes–imposing Halal slaughter is part of “Islamoforming”.
barbara burnett says
This is true,muslims can eat the meat without halaah slaughter,all they need to do is,say a prayer at the table,over the food,and it can be eaten!!!!
martin says
They are even allowed to eat human flesh and organs as long as it is not cooked.
Carolyne says
Let the little darlings go without lunch. Civilized people do not torture animals.
Lolly says
I couldn’t have put it better myself, Sarah.
D Austin says
How about a boycott by non-Muslims against halal meat sacrificed to demons?
Sam’s Club has a halal certificate on display for meat from Australia. I always ask employees if that meat sacrificed to demons is safe to eat. Get some interesting comments from them.
RichardL says
the vast majority of turkeys sold for Thanksgiving was halal. Butterball seems to have reversed its policy, though.
I can recommend taking a piece of pork and placing it in the halal meat cooler. For many mohammedans this renders the meat inedible and that means supermarkets sell less halal meat and might take it off the shelf.
In France, our Muslim corner grocer had halal stuff and a corner with kosher foods, including wine. Interesting, huh?
strats4ever says
“I can recommend taking a piece of pork and placing it in the halal meat cooler.”
Brilliant! For Canadians, as an example, what could be more Canadian than bacon? If we can’t discuss Islam, perhaps a pound of bacon in every halal meat cooler?
Carolyne says
For some time I have watched a Muslima in the grocery store pushing her cart around with her little boy. She, of course, is dressed in that Halloween garb and he is dressed as a human. My goal has been to place some bacon in her cart without her seeing me do it, but the kid watches me like a hawk. This is a much better idea. Just put bacon or pork chops in with the beef. In fact, put some bacon in every meat section In with the eggs, too.
Skeptic Sam says
I quite often drop a pkg of pork chops into the halal bunker.
Halal Bacon says
Sokath, his eyes uncovered
RichardL says
I refuse to eat halal for ethical (cruelty to animals), political (islamisation), culinary (the meat stinks and tastes worse), and religious (food dedicated to a foreign god) reasons.
I am not quite sure that I buy the line of the Catholic Church that one can eat halal meat because if it then blessed before consumption, the offering to allah is nullified.
Any single one reason should be good enough for anyone to not eat halal food.
If in doubt, I ask in a restaurant or I check menus for food containing pork, although that has become a difficult proposition in the UK.
Jayell says
Not only have thousands (hundreds of thousands?) of British school children have been routinely fed with this offensive Islamic garbage for years now without being told, but so have British consumers in general in restaurants, fast food outlets and on supermarket shelves. And we’re all supposed to tolerate it. This turn of events has come about because the British veterinary establishment has blown the whistle in this disgusting situation, and the game’s up for our arrogant, bigotted Friends of the Great Prophet. No, they don’t call the shots in the UK with any of their offensive antediluvian practices. So they want to starve themselves? GOOD!.That’s one way of solving a huge social problem and drain on the UK’s finances.
Paul says
They are quite happy to go without food all day during Ramadan, they don’t worry about starving then!
katherine says
Now I understand why the world is slavishly supporting the Muslim agenda. It’s in the FOOD ! Non-Muslims are being regularly fed a concoction of Sharia-compliant offerings made by the major food-packers.
The spell has been cast : even the Vatican is not immune to it, so don’t believe that merely praying over the food will nullify it.
Are y’all religious enough to believe this ? Whatever, please check for the Mark of the Beast before buying any food items.
John A. Marre says
Muslims and their barbaric customs should leave the UK and go back to their Middle-Eastern origins.
R Russell says
I am vegetarian. If I don’t like the vegetarian option on a menu I go elsewhere. It is not society’s responsibility to cater for my dietary choices.
Same with the Muslims. I am sick fed up with the preferential treatment they get. This is them forcing sharia on to us. Until the authorities wake up and realise that making favourites out of Muslims only makes many non-Muslims seethe with resentment, they, the authorities will have played their part in a future civil war.
mohammedwasapaedo says
Could not agree more.
Shmooviyet says
Seconded!!
Passed a shiny new halal market near our neighborhood the other day. Of course, the ultra-tolerant governor has declared that any ‘phobe, who’d dare question the transformation of the state into Minne-Mogadishu, is unwelcome and does not belong.
So more hell markets, goats and lambs continue to suffer sickening fates while SPCAs stay quiet, and local gov’t and churches do the fattening.
Dan says
It’s not just meat that Muslims want certified Halal.
Nestle and Cadbury for instance certify all their products.
And in Australia, Muslims are trying to enforce “Halal” transportation and storage on all foods as well.
Check out this Australian woman’s research into Halal.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SoCnEBnoqNE
The stupid thing is, is if a Muslim thinks his food isn’t halal, all he has to do is say his version of “grace” over the thing, and it becomes Halal.
This certification b.s. is exactly that.
B.S.
Rob says
fwiw, PETA does speak out against Halal meat. I would post a link to their blog with a video, but it’s simply too disturbingly violent and awful. It’s sickening. Easily found with a quick google search if you must, but really, it’s better not to watch that horrifying stuff. Thanks for working to oppose it.
gravenimage says
True, Rob–PETA *does* speak out, and kudos to them.
Here is the link, for anyone who wants to see what Halal slaughter is WARNING! EXTREMELY GRAPHIC!:
“The Cruelty Behind Muslim Ritual Slaughter:
https://www.peta.org/blog/cruelty-behind-muslim-ritual-slaughter/
They are also frank about much of this meat not being labeled Halal.
Rosie says
This is mildly encouraging but given that the UK is apparently willing to tolerate terrorism, honor killings, female genital mutilation, and the systematic rape of children, I would be surprised if they are actually willing to draw the line at animal cruelty. Cows can’t vote.
gravenimage says
Britons are famous for their love of animals. Allowing this is appalling.
Anti-jihad says
Where there’s a Muslim, there’s suffering.
gravenimage says
*So true*. Islam is the creed of cruelty.
steve says
ONLY Muslims are acceptable as workers in Halal slaughterhouses-abattoirs. Can you IMAGINE the Liberal and Labour outcry if ONLY NON-Muslims were offered work in a trade, thus denying the Muslims an opportunity to ‘assimilate’…………..[.I must stop here or get banned again for anti-Islam ‘sentiment’. In modern liberal Britain,sentiment means truth that may not be stated for fear of upsetting Muslim sensibilities.]
sharon Bridgman says
Im in Australia, 37 years ago I worked in a slaughter house and once a week a muslim would come in and slaughter there animals after it was stunned, now being stunned its still alive just unconscious, so why are they making such a fuss, then he would pray and cut and the animal didnt feel any pain, because we had animal rights wich seem to have slipped quietly away as the muslims slowley took over slaughter houses around the western world, and why because everyone’s concerned about offending them. We are the western world they are from the middle east and they should respect our ways and our christian values, its about time all western country’s woke up to this barbaric 3rd world tradition these people are pushing on us all its sickening. And its ballshit about it says in the koran that they must do this cruel practice all they have to do is pray over there food before eating it and its clean, do you know why Christian’s pray before a meal its to cover our food sacrificed to other gods and to make it clean for us, if westeners know they are eating meat sacrafised to fulse gods they would be boycotting eating halal meats. I think all slaughter houses should be non muslim, stick that in your fat pipe and smoke it you politicaly incorrect politicians, they the muslims do nothing for the west except rape any one boy or girl because they cant control them selves and they think its there right for godsake, and they live off welfare have to many kids and wifes and are turning the western world into a 3rd world.
zachary says
Mooslems have 1 option that is abundantly clear leave & go back to the Middle East you do not like the Western way of Life & you have no intention of assimilating Westerners do not want Sharia Law & will never permit it nor will they go along with the HALAl Food Standards Marrying 6 year olds Forcing Children to wear clothes to cover there entire body because pervert Muslims can’t control there Sexual desires
gravenimage says
No, it never occurs to pious Muslims that Islam is the cause of their suffering. They assume if things are not going well it is because they need to apply *more* Islam.
Charles says
The vile cruelty of the “Children of Satan” knows no bounds!
These evil practices must be banned in every Civilized nation!
Savagery and barbarism have out lived it’s use less ness!
K says
Note.. Muslims can eat kosher but Jews can’t eat halal. Why? Because the halal laws are more lax and create undue suffering.. there isn’t enough attention to the knife to see that it has no nicks in it (that would create a slow down of the slaughter and pain in the animal). Animals that have been beaten or treated badly during their life are not kosher.
Personally I am a vegan and I think that stunning the animal is slow and barbaric.
gravenimage says
I’m also a vegetarian–but I cannot imagine why you think that stunning an animal so it feels no pain is worse than cutting the poor creature’s throat while fully conscious.
And no–stunning an animal does not make anything slower.
Barbara Ethel says
As a vegetarian, this makes me so very sad. If people need to eat the flesh of another creature, then at least treat the creature with some respect and minimise its suffering. Animal cruelty in the name of religion. One of the reasons I am an atheist.
CogitoErgoSum says
I’m thinking human beings were killing animals by any means possible and consuming the flesh (cooked or raw) a long time before the idea of religion came along. Giving thanks to a god or thanking the spirit that resides within every living thing (plant or animal) for sustaining human life came along later and in my opinion helped make man special among all other living creatures inhabiting the Earth. To me religion is not the problem; the problem resides within the teachings of a certain religion (or religions). My religion (Christianity) does not promote or condone cruelty to animals and I believe any cruelty or abuse to any living thing is most definitely wrong and harmful to my own spirit.
ploome says
main health problem for children in the first world is obesity, and type 2 diabetes.. …stop all school lunch programs and let these families get an understanding of self reliance
gravenimage says
The idea that children not eating lunch is the way to prevent diabetes is very questionable.
LeftisruiningCanada says
The more I think about it, the more I become sure that the only real antidote to the poison of Islam is the Christs Gospel. It’s really the only way to find the freedom and peace Muslims so desperately lack.
Freedom, because Christians don’t have to fret about fulfilling, in this example, strict dietary laws which are meaningless.
Peace because, knowing they can’t please God by law keeping, Muslims seek the false ‘guarantees’ of divine approval through violent actions against anyone and everything around them. Including animals.
Jake says
Don’t expect PETA to do anything. They only care about the lives of fictional animals, not real ones. You’re gonna have to get someone else instead.
gravenimage says
Jake–as noted above–PETA *is* fighting this.
Bob Smyth says
In a “Civilized” society, animal welfare should come BEFORE “religious barbarity”. If the local Muslims are “offended”, so be it.
To paraphrase, “let them eat sandwiches” – from home.
Rik says
Or let the bastards starve, either way is good with me.
Tjhawk says
No institution that uses public funds should be allowed to use vendors that use discriminatory hiring practices. Halal vendors can only hire muslim butchers. This might be OK for a private school, but never for a tax supported public school.
Jake says
Great point! These Muslims want to boycott them FOR MOT BREAKING THE LAW.
Tjhawk says
Same goes for tax supported prisons.
There is always the vegetarian option. Anyone who refuses the meat could be offered a perfectly healthy vegetarian meal.
This would cut down on those converting to islam in order to get better food than the rest of the prison population.
Guest says
I may love meatballs, chicken, and hamburgers, but I cannot eat them in good conscious if I knew the animal suffered. I don’t see them as food when they are alive
Rik says
Well that’s a real shame. If muslims lack anything it’s an education. Muslims boycotting classes is a bad idea, although the life expectancy of non-muslim classmates has just gone up considerably (if there are any non-muslims in those schools).
gravenimage says
Yes–it is much better for Infidel children if Muslims are not bullying them and beating them up.
More Ham Ed says
I can only imagine the outrage if the school switched to daily bacon, pork chops, pork rinds, sausage, smoked ham and bratwurst, along with ham sandwiches and bacon bits on all salads.
gravenimage says
True. Many British institutions–including schools and prisons–from what I have heard have dropped pork entirely, lest they enrage Mohammedans. Insanity.
Mark A. says
So let them boycott school lunches.
Frankly, who cares whether they boycott school lunches. Few of us will gove their threats a second thought.
Ade says
let them pretend top be offended .. fuck ’em all
Twerzig says
As I understand it stunning is considered acceptable in some market places. Just as well as I am told the process is rather slow.
gravenimage says
Stunning is not acceptable under Halal slaughter. Muslims like their victims to suffer.
Anne Smith says
When I was in politics I fought very hard, as did many of my more intelligent colleagues, for an end to halal and kosher slaughter. I realise that kosher is done with better equipment (or so they say) but I have been in slaughterhouses and watched kosher butchering and it is horrid.
Although we managed to vote for an end to kosher and halal slaughter in our manifesto we were overruled by our Leader, because so much money is donated to the Party from those who prefer their meat to end its life in this way.
martin says
Do you refer to the communist and islamonazi party, that used to be known as labour?
gravenimage says
Thank you for your efforts, Anne.
gravenimage says
UK: Muslims threaten boycott as Council votes on banning halal meat in school
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Do they promise? If Britain is lucky, these Mohammedans will next boycott the schools and then the UK itself, and decamp to Dar-al-Islam.
martin says
http://www.barenakedislam.com/2013/12/15/australia-halal-certification-helps-funds-mosques-islamic-schools-and-terrorism/
gravenimage says
Yes, Martin–another reason not to support Halal.
Carolyne says
So what happens if the students boycott lunch? Less expense for the schools and more food for the students who eat lunch there. And they won’t have to sit in the cafeteria with people wearing Halloween garb at all times. And animals will no longer be tortured. Sounds win-win to me.
Mike says
Tough cookies, kids (and parents.) If you don’t like it, get the hell out. The sooner the better. If it were me I’d shove it down your throat just like you’re trying to shove down our throats all your antiquated customs. Leave…before these different European cultures come to their senses and treat you like you should be treated…rough and fast.
Dum Spiro says
Brit girl explaining halal:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJcw1VhqBn8
The following is also pertinent:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MppfiuxtAcY
You realize (after having been to the http://halalguider.com/list.php?sluge=PERSONALCAREPRODUCTS site) that halal involves more than meat…
— Spero