Top British universities secretly serve halal meat to unknowing students,Canada next?

[BlueLaser]

Why are the universities doing this in secret?

I don't think it was really a secret. When you went to University, did they tell you who supplied the meat in the cafeteria or describe the butchering process? People are butt hurt about this because some people are conspiracy minded or Islamophobes or just plain racist and think it's some secret plan to either convert everyone to Islam or is showing favoritism in siding with the Muslim minority. In reality, it probably boiled down to their meat supplier was the lowest bidder and just happens to also be Halal, and since no one had ever asked them to consider the butchering practices of their meat suppliers before, they didn't consider them now. It's not illegal to use ritual slaughter in the UK nor does the meat require a label indicating it was ritually slaughtered. If the supermarket doesn't have to advertise where meat comes from, why would the school?

 

[canada-man]

Wow, so much falsehood.

Halal requires that the jugular, carotid and windpipe all be severed with one single, swift stroke. This is identical the practice required for kosher (Shechita) butchering. Halal MAY allow an animal to be stunned, therefore making it more humane, while kosher (shechita) always forbids that practice. I don't get why you say the kosher method is "quick and humane" while the Halal method lets them suffer, given that both require a single, swift cut through the jugular and carotid. Consider over 80% of halal ritual slaughter also includes stunning in the UK while kosher (shechita) never does, Halal is definitely more humane that kosher.

Then you say kosher drains blood and halal does not... Explain how that's possible when both drain the blood the same way - through the carotid and jugular. My grandfather butchered his own animals, and he slit their throats too. He was neither Jewish nor Muslim, but he slit the throats and drained the blood. They're the same.

As for the method of cooking, that has nothing to do with the ritual slaughter. You can go to the grocery store, buy a raw chicken and eat it without cooking it if you really want to, and when you subsequently die of salmonella that will have nothing to do with the butcher.

"Kosher" (shechita) and Halal are both methods of slaughter prescribed by the Old Testament. Most old-school Christian butchers do it the same way (my grandpappy, as a perfect example, didn't touch the spinal cord, didn't stun the animals, killed with one fluid stroke, then drained all the blood, exactly as both prescribe despite your claim that Halal doesn't). To argue that Kosher is better than Halal is an absolute falsehood. There's a reason the two are on the same side of the debate and you virtually never see one form of ritual slaughter banned while the other is permitted.

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[IM469]

Halal – requires the animal be bled out in agony while sick people who get off watching that kind of thing have a “festival.”

Really ??? They use the term 'bled out in agony' and 'sick' people ?

Why are the universities doing this in secret?

I'm guessing like us when we go in and buy a steak or hamburger or whatever ... we do not inquire at the cashier how the cow met their death.

As of April Canada has established labeling for Halal meat to protect the 'purity' of Halal processed meats. I am not familiar with any certification for meat that does not contain 'Halal' (or Kosher) processed meat - just that the meat meets health standards.