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| Christian Children Secretly Fed Meat From Muslim Bleed-Kill Animals |
| 2006-12-19 |
| The Sun, London December 18, 2006 PUPILS at a Church of England school are only able to eat Muslim meals because of a council ruling. The only meat on the menu at the primary school is halal — where animals are controversially bled to death. The poor creatures' throats are slit and they are left conscious while the blood flows out of their bodies. Civilized slaughter houses use either the bolt in the head or electrocution method. We don't want animals to suffer. Children have been eating the meat for up to SEVENTEEN years at FOUR schools in Reading, Berkshire, without parents’ knowledge, the council admitted yesterday. The fact emerged after pupils were given letters from canteen managers to take home. Islamic law insists on halal meat, produced by slashing an animal’s neck with a single cut. Animals are not stunned beforehand. Parents are furious at the revelation. One said: “I have nothing against halal meat — especially for religious reasons — but my daughter is Christian not Muslim.” Reading Borough Council admitted halal meat had been served at four schools for “several years”. A council spokesman said: “It became clear following the introduction of the new school catering contract with Scolarest that some parents might not be aware. “Letters have been sent home. We are increasing options and offering fish each day.” Scolarest said: “We provide halal meat in four Reading schools at their request.” |
| Posted by:Sneaze Shaiting3550 |
| #23 The covert halal diet makes sense if you want to smooth the transition to islam. |
| Posted by: Mark Z 2006-12-19 16:33 |
| #22 Viva Fidel, now that's a loaded statement. |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2006-12-19 15:19 |
| #21 Several people have pointed out elsewhere that Sikhs are forbidden to eat such meat. Cultural sensitivity, anyone? |
| Posted by: James 2006-12-19 14:39 |
| #20 ?Que? |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2006-12-19 14:28 |
| #19 I can shout, don't hear you. |
| Posted by: .com 2006-12-19 14:23 |
| #18 Ingalish, I speeek Ingalish, |
| Posted by: Manuel 2006-12-19 13:46 |
| #17 Ewe fuckking ? It sounds like Free Palestins has been holding the tail during the halal ritual bleeding. |
| Posted by: wxjames 2006-12-19 13:43 |
| #16 Viva Pali peeples! The man is have me down. Caplist entity wall agaist you up it! |
| Posted by: HalfEmpty 2006-12-19 13:42 |
| #15 Clean up in aisles 13 and 14 - troll droppings! |
| Posted by: Spot 2006-12-19 13:31 |
| #14 YOu fuckking.\ !Viva Che! !Viva Fidel! |
| Posted by: FreePalestins 2006-12-19 13:13 |
| #13 YOu fuckking.\ |
| Posted by: FreePalestins 2006-12-19 13:13 |
| #12 Good god am I whipsawed on this one. On the one side, I could give a shit about kosher or halal. On the other side I could give even less of a shit about animal cruelty when it comes to ritual slaughter and butcher-work, and PETA could all march into the slaughter-pens and butcher each other with the slaughterhouse employees' nailguns in some sort of suicidal demonstration of the issue, and I could still care less. Wait a minute, I do believe I find myself on the Muslim side of things. Fancy that. Go halal! |
| Posted by: Mitch H. 2006-12-19 12:49 |
| #11 Why can't they just serve both (halal and non-halal)? I would wager for the same reason that they typically cannot serve Kosher meals side-by-side with non-Kosher. Dietary ritual usually requires entirely separate sets of storage areas, preparation surfaces, containers, cookpots, utensils and strict measures against intermingling of prohibited food stuffs. There are often purification rites for the food preparation area as well. Few, if any, school cafeterias are capable of meeting such requirements. Only by going entirely with a single dietary regime are they able to maintain compliance. Icerigger, keep up the good work! It's time to begin unblinding liberals about their little Islamic darlings. The Brits are espeically attuned to issues of animal cruelty. The sooner that halal slaughtering is outlawed, the quicker the West will be on track to survive. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2006-12-19 12:42 |
| #10 Much like everything else, it starts as a choice. Then, becomes a one-way mandate for "tolerance" reasons. Why can't they just serve both (halal and non-halal)? |
| Posted by: BA 2006-12-19 10:25 |
| #9 Backfire 101. I just sent this. Waiting for the non-rely but heh Zen you have a good idea. Come on Ranters let's flood their mailboxs with protests! In the meantime I'm having a cheeseburger for breakfast. No Halal schit for this household. Ice To whom it may concern, Please where is are fellow PETA members in London!? Animals that are fed to these school children are being bled to death in an murderous ritual. Where are our protestors? Is the Halal murder of these inocent animals being ignored for religious reasons? These animals are wide awake and held down while their throats are slit wide open and left to bleed to death on a cold concrete floor. Where are the notices on the PETA websites? Where is our outrage? Has my PETA lost it's nerve? Mike, USA http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2006580420,00.html Islamic law insists on halal meat, produced by slashing an animal’s neck with a single cut. Animals are not stunned beforehand. PUPILS at a Church of England school are only able to eat Muslim meals because of a council ruling. The only meat on the menu at the primary school is halal — where animals are controversially bled to death. Info@peta.org; Info@peta.de; MediaInfo@peta.org |
| Posted by: Icerigger 2006-12-19 08:19 |
| #8 PETA Europe Ltd PO Box 36668 London SE1 1WA England 020 7357 9229 020 7357 0901 (fax) Info@peta.org.uk I'm writing PETA. Should be interesting. |
| Posted by: Icerigger 2006-12-19 08:03 |
| #7 Zen exJag is right. I've written to PETA demanding a protest about Muzzy slaughter houses. No response what so ever. But please give it a try! The backfire idea should not be taken off the table. Setting PETA against pIslam, what a hoot :)! It actually makes sense. The problem is PETA only goes after Christians. It's a liberal asshat thing. |
| Posted by: Icerigger 2006-12-19 08:00 |
| #6 Schools not serving pork anymore, or even offering only halal™ food are found in France too, an another symptom of cultural meekness and multiculti submission. Btw, halal™ slaughter is very painful, it requiers the edge of the blade to slit the throat in a forward-backward motion, in the same wound channel. But, hey, it's Holy! |
| Posted by: anonymous5089 2006-12-19 06:39 |
| #5 I predict a massive uprising by the Christian street any minute, since the authorties have clearly shown a total lack of respect for their religious sensibilities. They will gather en masse at Saint Paul's and march to the City, pillaging shops, burning cars and lynching the odd BBC journalist or lefty bureaucrat who is reckless enough to get in the way, or who fails to prostrate himself in abject repentence. Oh, wait a minute. |
| Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy 2006-12-19 06:02 |
| #4 PETA? Those lightweights? They're all glossy ad campaigns and no muscle. Besides, I think they're still bogged down with liberating the puppies from Huntingdon Life Sciences. For serious direct-action hooliganism, I'd try to get ALF interested. |
| Posted by: exJAG 2006-12-19 03:53 |
| #3 Well, there's a nice route towards making the West intensely Muslim unfriendly. Make halal slaughtering against the law on the basis of it being cruel and inhumane. As if any of our major meatpackers could ever get away with such a killing method. Why isn't the tree-hugging warm fuzzy duckling and fluffy bunny crowd up in arms over this? This pushes so many of their buttons all at once. PETA should be storming the mosques and halal butchers even as you read this. Maybe I'll email them about this and see if a back fire can't be lit. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2006-12-19 02:21 |
| #2 because of a council ruling. Any more info? |
| Posted by: Jesing Ebbease3087 2006-12-19 02:11 |
| #1 Isn't Halal meat slaughtered in a religious ceremony where the meat is dedicated to |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2006-12-19 00:23 |