Birmingham mosques come out against halal
machine slaughtering
Filed in Europe,
Halal Integrity,
Meat
& Poultry, UK on
10/03/2010 with no comments Mosques in Birmingham have called
for consumers and processors to be made more of aware of machine slaughtering
used in halal meat production.
Umbrella
organisation the Birmingham Council of Mosques has released an open letter
signed by Dr N Naseem on 3 March, which said: “Our
collective view is that we do not accept machine slaughter as a halal (lawful) method to produce halal
meat.”
Ruksana Shain, representing
the Birmingham Council of Mosques, added that the letter was a way of making a
stance to the Muslim Community to make them aware of machine slaughtering in halal and also communicating this to the meat industry and
the Food Standards Agency.
“We are trying to help the community and get the information out,” said Shain, adding the Council was looking to lobby the
government over the issue to get machine slaughtering off the halal plate.
Shain added that many halal
certification bodies that accept machine slaughter were not wholly
representative of the Muslim Community and were self-certificating.
Eblex Halal Steering Group
member Naved Syed said:
“These are the views the Malaysian Standard MS 1500 has raised that removes
machine slaughter from halal killing.”
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