Thursday, February 14, 2008

Eating Halal Food - A Global issue which is out of equation now

This thing has been bothering me for many days now...and I feel I need to throw it up...of course what could be the best place to do so...

I think I am nervous on this "Halal" talks going on in every muslim house that Eat this and dont eat that....eat this brand of food, and dont eat that brand of food. I am sick of scams and emails.

You go to the mosque and you find a brochure by some "dear muslim brother/sister" explaining how the mcdonalds fries have layer of bacon on them....how do u find that brochure is authentic...and then someone starts the argument....o brother u should call mcdonalds and enquire about it.....how many of those vendors u could actually call.....? It is simply impossible.....

One argument would be...dont eat foods from these vendors...then u go to the target store and start picking up things that you like...for example butter, cereal, potato chips, salsa, juices, dish detergents, "bread especially", and the list goes on.......in short every single thing that u want to bring home as a commodity....has issues according to many "What is Halal Books"....yogurt...take an example of yogurt...milk....baby milk powders...according to these books....only a few products on the shelves of any grocery store are halal...and the rest are Haraam......

Now if somebody thinks this problem exists only in countries where the majority of the people are non-muslims...well that is not the case..

In my recent visit to Pakistan, and Dubai...I saw many of those products which are labeled as "haram" in many of the Muslim resources here in america...for example many nacho products, and chips products, juices...and what not...all of them were there...and labelled as imported fine quality products...

What can be done to fix this shit.,...do we even have an option...i dont know how u can abstain, and save yourself...it is puzzling...

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