{"id":4576,"date":"2010-03-15T15:37:37","date_gmt":"2010-03-15T15:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2010\/03\/15\/halal-poultry-falsely-labelled\/"},"modified":"2016-01-07T12:33:58","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T12:33:58","slug":"halal-poultry-falsely-labelled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2010\/03\/15\/halal-poultry-falsely-labelled\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Halal poultry falsely labelled&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3>Majority of halal-labeled poultry \u2018slaughtered by machine\u2019, claim group<\/h3>\n<div><strong>UP to three-quarters of poultry sold as halal in the UK is falsely labelled, an industry group has warned.<\/strong><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The majority of halal-labelled poultry and a small amount of beef and lamb were slaughtered by machine rather than an individual, Naved Syed, of the English Beef and Lamb Executive Halal Steering Group, told The Grocer magazine.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The meat was being passed off as halal because the slaughter method was not usually printed on labels.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Mr Syed said: &#8220;If you told Muslims it was done by a machine they wouldn&#8217;t buy it. Practically all imams in this country have said that machine killing is not halal. Otherwise there&#8217;s no difference between halal and non-halal.&#8221;<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The UK does not have a single standard for halal slaughter. Many Muslim countries have outlawed the practice after the internationally-recognised Malaysian Halal Standard MS 1500 removed machine slaughtering as an acceptable practice last year.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The Birmingham Council of Mosques said last week that it did not accept machine slaughter.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Mr Syed said his organisation was carrying out consumer research into attitudes towards halal production.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The study will cover the growth of the Muslim population in England, the demand for halal products, the supply chain and changing consumption trends.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Zahid Hussain, chairman of poultry processor Cappoquin Poultry, told The Grocer: &#8220;Machine slaughter is definitely not a lawful condition of halal. You have to have a manual slaughter and also each bird needs to be blessed.&#8221;<\/div>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Majority of halal-labeled poultry \u2018slaughtered by machine\u2019, claim group UP to three-quarters of poultry sold as halal in the UK is falsely labelled, an industry group has warned. &#13; The majority of halal-labelled poultry and a small amount of beef and lamb were slaughtered by machine rather than an individual, Naved Syed, of the English [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}