AUSTRALIAN authorities are monitoring a push by a regional branch of Indonesia’s peak Muslim clerical body to abandon the pre-slaughter stunning of cattle, triggering fresh concerns about the treatment of Australian cattle in Indonesian abattoirs.
Meat industry bring out the “Big Guns” to sort out the Animal Rights loonies once and for all, starting with Temple Grandin.
The High Court has ruled today that Co Waterford-based Cappoquin Chickens Muslim director Perwaiz Latif will play a significant role in its success under examinership.
Mr Justice John D Cooke transferred all boardroom powers to examiner Michael McAteer.
By Aodhan O Faolain and Ray Managh
The High Court has appointed an interim examiner to a chicken processing company that employs more than 130 people.
Yesterday Mr Justice George Birmingham appointed Michael McAteer of Grant Thornton as interim examiner to both Cappoquin Poultry Ltd (CPL) and to a related company Cappoquin Poultry Holdings Ltd after being informed the business has debts of €6m.
A £52m-turnover poultry supplier due to celebrate a half century in business in 2014 has been bought out of administration.
Demand For Meat Predicted To Double Over Next 40 Years
(CNN) – A burger grown in a laboratory. Sounds like science-fiction? Well up until very recently it probably was but now the prospect of lab-grown meat appearing on our supermarket shelves is closer than ever.
Reciprocal Meat Conference Hot Topics Paper
An Essay by Joe M. Regenstein, Professor of Food Science, Head: Cornell Kosher and Halal Food Initiative, Stocking Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853-7201, USA JMR9@cornell.edu
The Jewish and Muslim communities have a set of dietary laws that control the food they eat. These are part of a larger set of laws that impact almost every aspect of their daily lives. The Kosher laws for Jews and the Halal laws for Muslims have been described in some detail by Regenstein, et al. (2004). The focus of this paper is on one of the most important components of these laws, how an animal is killed for food. In both communities there has been a well-document interest and concern for animal welfare long before it was fashionable in the Western world. Both groups traditionally use a cut at the neck to make the animal unconscious. Note also that both groups do not slaughter or use pigs.
Malaysians need to be educated on the benefits of organic meats.
Eblex has developed new posters for butchers catering for the halal market in order to satisfy increased demand from the sector.
By Andy Sambidge
Retailers in the UK will not be forced to label halal and kosher meat after a bill proposed by a member of the House of Commons was narrowly voted down.
Retailers must be forced to label halal and kosher meat to ensure that consumers understand the provenance of the products they are buying, Conservative MP Philip Davies has said.
NEAR THE entrance to the Haoyue meat processing facility in Changchun, there were 15 cranes working on an enormous apartment complex – not far from a mosque which supervises the halal slaughter of hundreds of thousands of animals every year.
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