بريطانيا: حملة لإثارة المجتمع ضد منافذ بيع اللحوم الحلال

شنت صحيفة "ديلي ميل" البريطانية عبر موقعها الإليكتروني حملة أثارت فيها الجماهير البريطانية ضد الأسواق التجارية الكبرى ومطاعم الوجبات الجاهزة، بالإعلان عن أن اللحوم المقدمة عبر هذه المنافذ مذكاة طبقًا للشريعة الإسلامية، وأن هذه المنافذ لا تخبر العملاء، بالرغم من تأكيد منافذ بيع اللحوم على أن الذبح يتم بعد الصعق الكهربائي.

ومن الجدير بالذكر الإشارة إلى أن الغربيين يعترضون علي التذكية الشرعية ويرونها تخالف حقوق الحيوان، وضرورة ذبحه عقب تخديره أو نحوه حرصًا على عدم تألمه.

وقد طالب وزير الزراعة بضرورة معرفة العملاء والزبائن ما يأكلونه مشيرًا إلى أن وضع المعلومات على عبوات السلع من شأنه أن يمنح العميل حق الاختيار.

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Top supermarkets secretly sell halal: Sainsbury's, Tesco, Waitrose, and M&S don't tell us meat is ritually slaughtered.

Britain's biggest supermarket chains are selling halal lamb and chicken without telling unsuspecting shoppers.

Those stocking meat slaughtered according to Islamic law include Waitrose, Marks & Spencer, Sainsbury’s, Tesco, Somerfield and the Co-op.

And a Mail on Sunday investigation has found that fast-food chains including Domino’s Pizza, Pizza Hut, KFC, ¬Nando’s and Subway are also using halal meat without ¬telling customers.

But the UK’s second-biggest supermarket, Asda, has refused to confirm or deny whether it sells halal meat.

The Mail on Sunday contacted Asda on Tuesday, but by yesterday it had failed to answer any of our questions.

Initially, Waitrose, Sainsbury’s and Tesco were reluctant to admit they sold halal meat. But later they confessed to selling Islamically slaughtered lamb. Tesco also admitted selling some halal chicken without labelling it as such.

Most lamb imported from New Zealand by British supermarkets has been slaughtered according to Muslim law, but this is not mentioned on packaging. Some lamb from British abattoirs is also halal.

Last night, Agriculture Minister Jim Paice said: ‘People should know what they’re buying in the shops or when they’re eating out and I will be discussing with the food industry the role labelling can play in giving consumers a choice.’

The supermarkets and fast-food outlets said they did not feel the need to tell customers that meat is halal because the slaughter conformed to Western standards, with animals stunned before being killed.

But the RSPCA has raised concerns about the way chicken is killed in Islamic abattoirs because the birds are stunned with a weaker electric current, which does not guarantee unconsciousness during slaughter.

All Islamically slaughtered lamb and chicken sold in British supermarkets is stunned before being killed, but is not labelled as halal. Moderate Islamic groups allow animals to be stunned before slaughter, which brings the practice in line with Western methods.