Halal Food

[wildwood]

This is partly why I am sick of Islam. These people have money and still demand free halal food. Does any other religion get this kind of special consideration?

[NoMercy]

"I'm passing - hail and farewell"

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[1ozzy]

G'day, cya!

[ummmm]

Are you in the US?

[vetuste_ennemi]

Poems of Catullus. Set book for A-Level, Birdie (let's hope PP isn't looking in). He also gave us "Odi et amo". Young love, young passion: "do I love or do I hate you?"

Also "womens promises are writ in water". But "mulieres" and "aqua" apart I can't remember the quotation..

[ummmm]

I didn't see any of the answers...sorry.

[vetuste_ennemi]

I see no nreason to apologise, Ummm.

[vetuste_ennemi]

But I do. Ummmm.

[Jackdaw33]

Catullus's lament for Lesbia, which was excised from our texts, was my favourite.

Nunc in quadriviis et angiportis
Glubit magnanimi Remi nepotes.

[vetuste_ennemi]

Remember, Lesbia, (mistress not sister). That's from a biography of late republican Rome. Can't remember the poem and needed Google help. Defer to you on the Latin text, Corvus.

[vetuste_ennemi]

Corve.

[Jackdaw33]

Now on street corners and down back alleys
She gives head to the descendants of the great Remus (soldiers).

[vetuste_ennemi]

You're a very naughty boy, Jackdaw.

[vetuste_ennemi]

Did you see last night's(?) program (BBC4?) on Sappho?

[Jackdaw33]

Don't blame me, blame Catullus.

[Jackdaw33]

The works of Sappho were never on our reading list!

[vetuste_ennemi]

Existed as remnants. Anacreon etc. The program I mentioned was about the influence she had.
600 years BC we had Sappho. Then we had George Eliot. Then we had the suffragettes.

The 21st century? The burkah and the hijab. Hail to thee blithe spirit!

[vetuste_ennemi]

Nil desperandum. We still have Madonna, Ashley Judd fighting for women's rights.

[birdie1971]

To me, Halal = animal cruelty.

I don't (knowingly) buy it. I don't (knowingly) eat it. The problem is that supermarkets aren't forced by legislation to say whether or not a particular product is Halal. In my opinion, they should be. But guess what? The Muslim Council of Britain [MCOB] is against the labelling of food that has been slaughtered using the barbaric Halal method.

But why, I hear you ask? Why would the MCOB be against such a measure? Is it because they know that labelling food “Halal” will hit the sales of said produce? Of course it is. The MCOB care nothing for animal welfare. The MCOB care about the advancement of Islam and they don't give the proverbial rat's bottom about animal rights.

[Mamyalynne]

I agree with clear labelling.

[birdie1971]

Mamyalynne - “I agree with clear labelling.”

Good. It bugs me that I am prevented from knowing under what circumstances an animal has been killed. I want to know that it did not suffer. Pre-stunning is the only humane way of slaughter. This has been shown by demonstrable scientific studies. It has been proven beyond a reasonable doubt that animals that are pre-stunned suffer no pain when slaughtered. Animals that are not pre-stunned suffer pain. All else is conjecture.