A survey of 1,977 UK consumers, conducted for The Grocer by YouGov, suggests few shoppers would be prepared to pay extra: 68% of meat eaters said they would not pay more to guarantee meat had not been religiously slaughtered, with ...
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Opinion: Clarifying halal methods – ‘Animal Welfare is paramount’
By ZÉNA BUTT, HFF THE halal meat industry has had a mammoth amount of media coverage in the last week or so. Following The Sun’s front page article on the ‘Halal Secret of Pizza Express’ (May 7, 2014), a snowball ...
Read More »Ethical, organic, safe: the other side of halal food
By Carla Power, The Guardian With concern over animal welfare, supermarkets and restaurants under fire and fears about ‘foreign ways’, halal meat is food’s most politically charged subject. But it’s now a £1bn a year market in the UK alone – ...
Read More »UK: HFA stance on Stunning under EU Regulation EC1099/2009
With issues on religious slaughter coming in the news once again with regard to some EU countries banning religious slaughter without stunning, the Halal Food Authority has issued the following statement on the conditions with which it will certify poultry ...
Read More »UK: Demand for Halal turkey on the rise
By Tanjil Rashid, Financial Times Covered in blood and Urdu script, the traditional halal butcher’s shop has catered to generations of Britain’s Muslims – serving up a platter of chicken, lamb and beef to mostly foreign-born customers. But in a ...
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