There may be any number of reasons why people don’t want halal meat. They may object to halal slaughter for humanitarian reasons. They may consider it to be meat sacrificed to idols, as discussed in the New Testament. They may object to the fact that many halal certification organizations have links to jihad terror groups. But we are not allowed to have any such concerns, either in the U.S. or in Australia. Several years ago, Pamela Geller and I met with USDA officials and presented a petition to them asking that they require that halal products be labeled as such, for the benefit of people who objected to halal food for humanitarian, religious, or other reasons. Ultimately the USDA never got back to us and ignored our petition. And the Dearborn public schools illustrate once again the never-failing principle: when in Muslim countries, one must conform one’s behavior to suit Muslim sensibilities. And in non-Muslim countries, one must conform one’s behavior to suit Muslim sensibilities.
“Dearborn offering new menus, more made from scratch items,” Dearborn Public Schools, August 21, 2019 (thanks to Creeping Sharia):
Dearborn Public Schools is overhauling its school menu this year! Students are in for a more diverse menu, more options every day, more fresh produce, and more made-from-scratch meals.
Parents will see menus that are easier to find and understand – right down to being able to look up possible allergens and even carb counts online for every dish.
The changes come after the district hired Southwest Foodservice Excellence (SFE) to help oversee the food service program. The company has provided nutritionists and chefs to help transition the district to a program with a much more expansive and fresh from scratch menu, including training the District staff on how to cook these meals. In addition, SFE will help improve food service operational, procurement and financial tracking systems and reinforce nutritional and safety protocols. SFE works in 150 school districts around the country offering several employee management models. In Dearborn, District employees will continue to run and staff our kitchens, working in close partnership with SFE.
Students will see dramatic differences in this year’s menu, staring with more made from scratch meals, promised Joshua Bain, SFE senior general manager of food service.
“The district has been doing a lot of heat-and-eat because it was easy,” Bain said. Now, everything will be handmade, down to the sandwiches.
“We will actually spread peanut butter on bread,” Bain assured. More than 75 percent of SFE’s offerings are fresh-from-scratch.
The first short week of school shows the changes. Students will be offered orange chicken with rice, Thai veggie stir fry, and beef tacos. Elementary schools will offer at least three entrée items each day, middle schools four to six, and high schools six to eight. In previous years, elementary schools offered only one other option, the same vegetarian second choice for the entire week.
All the meat served in Dearborn will now be halal. Before some schools offered all halal, while other had a mix, which contributed to confusion about which menu was being served at which school….
Photo by Rmhermen – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=39910780
Infidel says
I make it a point not to buy ANYTHING labeled ‘Halal’ – not just meat, but vegetable items as well
Infidel says
Also, it’s worth revisiting the USDA w/ that petition. A Trump USDA could be very different from an Obama or Bush USDA
somehistory says
Homeschool the non moslim kids.
Pam Small says
While our tax dollars go to buying Halal meat for public schools.
revereridesagain says
Demand that video of halal slaughter be included in any plan of “education” about Islam. Since the “education” is actually indoctrination, the request will be refused. Take the b@$tards to court.
James Lincoln says
revereridesagain,
I would recommend that they use the following video link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXmB9zsAQ_E
mortimer says
Thanks for this video. We should send it to all our friends and convince them that halal is NOT a benign or humane process of slaughter. This is the same way that the jihadists behead a man … with slow, deliberate, exquisite, sadistic cruelty. The animals are clearly suffering through their horribly painful death. Islam’s animal torture must be made illegal in all countries.
babs says
Horrible. Absolutely horrible
gravenimage says
Halal slaughter is viciously cruel.
Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) says
Where is the evidence that the slaughter method shown here is really halal?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halal
says, of the halal method of slaughter, “The food must come from a supplier that uses halal practices. Dhabīḥah (ذَبِيْحَة) is the prescribed method of slaughter for all meat sources, excluding fish and other sea-life, per Islamic law. This method of slaughtering animals consists of using a well-sharpened knife to make a swift, deep incision that cuts the front of the throat, the carotid artery, trachea, and jugular veins. The head of an animal that is slaughtered using halal methods is aligned with the qiblah [pre-mortem, or post-mortem?]. In addition to the direction, permitted animals should be slaughtered upon utterance of the Islamic prayer Bismillah “in the name of God”.”
But this video shows haphazard alignment of the animal’s head with the qibla, and nobody is heard to say “Bismillah” while severing the animal’s throat. Is the halal-certifying imam sitting in an air-conditioned office muttering “Bismillah” from time to time? Does the USDA or some other agency make periodic inspection visits to slaughterhouses to verify whether the claim of halal is actually true? Is halal meat sold without even providing a “Bismillah” incantation?
Joe says
Well those are good questions, but is halal-butchering legal? In most states, the animal must be stunned before the throat is sliced.
In addition, only Muslims can slaughter halal meat. Is a public school allowed to practice discrimination in its selection of vendors?
I would suppose, that “halal” is mostly a warning that the meat is unsanitary. Does the district have a procedure to qualify vendors? I know some contractors who ate meat in Muslim countries and came back with some nasty parasites.
gravenimage says
The animals were not humanely stunned. That is Halal enough for most Muslims.
barbaracvm1 says
It is against my religion to heat Halal. I want to know where is PETA on this issue.
gravenimage says
PETA *does* condemn Halal slaughter, as I have noted here many times:
“The Cruelty Behind Muslim Ritual Slaughter”
https://www.peta.org/blog/cruelty-behind-muslim-ritual-slaughter/
Liz says
I seem to remember them over and over going after women wearing fur. Why aren’t they pounding the drums on this?
How can we get them to make more noise about this?
Carl says
Most don’t know, they need to see the videos.
gravenimage says
Yes–I wish PETA would push this more That they have come out against this cruelty at all is a good thing, though.
Barb says
There should be mass public protests organized in Michigan and throughout the USA against Halal!
It is food offered to a false god!
Boycott all Halal products and insist only on NON-HALAL and go vegitatrian!
Keys says
Does this mean that muslim companies will get all the contracts for meat ?
Aren’t there bidding laws ?
If so, are the bids put out requiring “halal” ? If that is the case, would it not be illegal for being in violation of the First Amendment establishment clause ? ( a public government body requiring a religious component for bids)
“Halal” means more than how the animal is killed by slitting the neck. Prayers must be said for the meat to be “halal”.
Here are Muslim conditions for halal slaughter from a Muslim site:
http://halalcertification.ie/islamic-method-of-slaughtering/
One of the conditions is:
“The name of Allah must be invoked (mentioned) at the time of slaughtering by saying: Bismillah Allahu Akbar. (In the Name of Allah; Allah is the Greatest.)”
Keys says
Does any kafir want to have their kids eat meat that had “the name of Allah invoked (mentioned) at the time of slaughtering by saying Bismillah Allahu Akbar. (In the name of Allah; Allah is the Greatest.)” ?
mortimer says
I ask ‘halal’ meat purveyors: “DO YOU HAVE ETHICAL MEAT AS WELL?”
MicahStone says
For pandering liberal extremists, the TAIL always WAGS the DOG
Angemon says
Fine – I want non-halal pork and pork-based jello. Can I have that?
somehistory says
Each school gets money for each student….an amount they don’t get if the kids don’t attend.
that is why truant officers go after the kids and the parents are threatened. If the kid misses school, the school loses the money for that child, for every day they miss. If not for the money, the school wouldn’t care. If they got the money anyway, they wouldn’t go after the kids and the parents.
If enough of the non moslim parents kept their kids out and home to schooled them, the schools would be losing enough money that the admin people would suddenly care. If the parents made them know ***why*** they were going to be home schooling…this moslim preference…the admin might care.
Home schooled kids are better off anyway when the parents care because the kids gets more one-on-one attention and can socialize with other home schooled kids. Colleges and U’s are accepting of these kids.
abad says
What about private schools in Dearborn (parochial and non-parochial private)? What is the lunch situation there, or do students have to bring lunch from home, like I did when I was attending Catholic junior-high and high school in the lat 1970’s to early 1980’s?
somehistory says
That would work too. The so-called “public” school system there has become moslim school paid for by the public and they depend on the money that comes in for each kid. Private schools of whatever kind run by non moslims would benefit from more students if the parents can afford the cost.
roberta says
Congratulations Michigan. Ive never been much on boycotts, but for this one Ill make an exception. Not so much as an apple will I purchase if there is even a chance it came from your state. You suck. Your camel sucks. Sucks to be you. You know what to do if you dont want to suck.
abad says
I guess that means, pork chops and BLT sandwiches are out of the question for all students?
smh
gravenimage says
I’m sure they are not serving pork–even though this is very much a part of most Michigander’s diets.
Eric Snow says
However, in one regard, if halal meat means that pork isn’t served, that’s useful from a biblical viewpoint since the bible prohibits the eating of any meat from a pig (Deut. 14:6; Leviticus 11:7).
Kent Horton says
That’s Jewish law. It was never meant to apply to Gentiles.
gravenimage says
Most Christians do indeed eat pork.
And Muslims are *not* imposing Halal because of the Bible,as you appear to believe.
gravenimage says
Michigan: All meat in Dearborn public schools is now halal
……………….
Horrifying–but who can be surprised by this? We knew it was coming if Muslims could get away with it.
Hindu American says
This news is sickening at so many levels.
Craig Stace says
I see on FB posting they won’t leave an icon for comments. They know they are idiots AND WRONG.
Spirp says
Either vote out the school board
Take back your town or get ready for sharia to rule your life in Dearborn
It’s sad to watch sharia slowly creep
Into the U S I ask do we have what it takes to stand up for our way of life
Chas says
Poor little jihadi wannabes should be strictly vegan. The our libs would love them even MORE:-)
Tama says
Wanting more foods diversity and getting the minority sameness how metaphorical
Trick_or_Treat says
This is disgusting, and dictatorial.
If muslim students request [demand?] halal, fair enough, then stock some halal stuff to placate them, but what reason (or right) does the school have to decide that they are only going stock damned ‘halal’ food exclusively?
Why should every other other student (of whatever cultural , ethnic, or religious background) be forced into acceptance – by default – of A: food that has been sacrificed [ie, dedicated, consecrated] to a false god/idol [ie, ‘allah’] and, B: meat that has been slaughtered in the most barbarically disgraceful, uncivilized, and inhumane manner, just to accommodate ‘THEIR’ dictates and sensitivities?
Have some forgotten that ‘other people’ still happen to live in the USA too, and many of which also hold their own cultural, ethical, moral, or religious convictions and sensitivities – or don’t they count anymore ?
[Perhaps we should all paint ourselves up some protest signs that say, “NON-MUSLIM LIVES MATTER!” ?]
Incidences of this very same type of slow-creeping, sharia-esque, dictatorial crap being ‘tried on’ here and there, are also becoming more and more common here in Australia as well. I’m feeling that people are going to have to start ‘putting the foot down’ (and HARD, and LOUD) on this crap sometime very soon.
Shirley Ann says
Is all the meat served in the Congressional Dining Rooms, HALAL? I often wonder if The Meat we buy from our Local Grocery, is HALAL? Remember we American Citizens in America, have been Fooled Before by our Government People!
gravenimage says
Well, they do serve pork, so I think not.
Eur says
the tendency is that in the near future everything is halal and only what is not halal is labeled and sold in remote sections (pork, beer) … In the Muslim countries the halal label is not necessary because simply all animals they are slaughtered by the halal method. All western slaughterhouses will adopt this method, we will all end up eating halal shit.
No Muzzies Here says
Many ecstatic words of praise for this wonderful new menu. How comforting to know that the school will actually spread peanut butter on bread! I feel better that the kids won’t have to touch a knife to spread their own peanut butter.
All the flowery words are to prepare you for the last paragraph, which tells you that all meat will be halal. Rejoice! The Islamization is almost complete!
Pank says
All children at Dearborn public schools are required to see how animals are slaughtered. Probably the halal meat comes up spontaneously.
Pank says
All children at Dearborn public schools are required to see how animals are slaughtered. Probably the halal meat comes up spontaneously.
E T says
I am so tired of barbarians, what a terrible effect all these multicultural morons have had on our lives. HOW DARE THEY PUSH THIS CRUEL CULTURE ON US.
It is fall I wish CAIR, the Muslim Brotherhood hoods, all the barbarians, would do like the birds and flock off.
toomanyhobbies says
and if we demanded Kosher only for the Jew’s, and vegetarian only for the tree huggers, what do ya think they would say….
Astro Wagon says
What happen to separating Church from State? If these schools are given tax dollars, than in no way there should be a religious entity deciding what kind of foods should be serve in them !!! PERIOD !!!