The BBC reported it yesterday. The focus was on the fact that so many food outlets are now selling halal meat to their customers without those customers knowing about it. That is wrong, imo...and in the opinion of others also.

As ever, The Daily Mail is accused of stirring up racism, but this matter needed to be brought out into the open. And it is not racist to voice concerns over animals, surely.

I only believe in 'religious tolerance' up to a point. If *any* religion has things inside it which are fundamentally cruel, sick or plain wrong, then my tolerance ends, there and then...which is why I've been ranting and raging about the pope's visit recently.

This is nothing to do with racism. It is purely about right and wrong, imo.


I believe that Kentucky Fried Chicken (who'd eat that anyway?) came 'clean' about it recently, but other folks, so it seems, have stayed utterly silent.

What I find so strange is *why* many food outlets in the UK are now using halal meat in the first place. As far as I'm aware, kosher meat is not used in the main food chains in the same way,(I don't agree with those religious beliefs either.) so I guess that'd be the reason why the media did not pick up on the kosher side of things in the same way.

If folks eat meat then it is surely only right that as little suffering as possible takes place and I cannot comprehend that this form of killing is *more* kind and compassionate. Rather, it seems to me, thaat it's done because 'someone' wrote it down in a book at some point in time, and since that time the masses have lived their lives according to those words.