Women Mapping New York City’s Halal Food

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44 points·sohkamyung··9 comments

Halal food is much like Kosher, with a just a few differences. For meat, essentially, if it is Kosher then it is also halal.

There are a couple of existing apps to find halal restaurants or even stores, but they have outdated info and very few restaurants even in big cities.

Another issue is that different people have different meaning of halal, conservatives have a very strict standard. e.g. Some wont eat regular cheese if it is made using rennet from non-halal sources (much like strict vegetarians).

Only Muslims are permitted to slaughter animals for halal meat.

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/halal-and-kosher-slaughter#requi...

I'm not condoning industries that discriminate by religion, by the way

I’d also like to know which venues are serving Halal food. But for different reasons to these women.

And those reasons are..?

Maybe to avoid them? The halal method of killing an animal is cruel.

One can argue that all traditional non-organic farming is cruel. Esp. pork farms just google "pork puss".

There is a spectrum

Yes, precisely that.

Also, "Halal" is a means to gain religious supremacy/monopoly in the food sector. Only Muslims are permitted to work in Halal abatoirs.

" Only Muslims are permitted to work in Halal abatoirs. "

Wow, that is really discriminatory! Kosher just needs a Rabbi to certify it.

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