Pork Found In Prison Halal Food

[ChillDoubt]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21302925

Oh dear.

[Old_Geezer]

That's thought em; what you mean with sharia law, amputations, and the like, but the right food guarantied ?

[emmie]

it has changed out of all recognition, and unless one is able to pay top pounds for pork products at the big supermarket, then one has to go a distance. we had two butchers, two greengrocers, three newspaper shops, an excellent bakers, tailors, shoe repairers, all within a five minute walk, all those shops have gone.

[grasscarp]

Probably wont bother a lot of prisoners who have opted for Halal food. A lot of prisoners claim they are muslim as apparently they get better food. I was told this a long time ago by someone who has been in prison (and who used to do this).

[emmie]

it;s amazing to me that people go on about animal rights, you only have to look back at the thread about the stupid woman who dumped a cat in a wheelie bin, yet don't care a damn how livestock are slaughtered.
Muslim prisons would at least solve this nonsense about food contamination.

[chaptazbru]

Halal meat is vile. How anybody can slit the throat of a little lamb (a baby animal) and watch it bleed to death is abhorrent to me. They have such a short life in the fields with their Mums and then this horror is inflicted upon them. This isn't a muslim country and animals aren't religious and I don't approve of it here, and I don't give a stuff how controversial that is. And no, I don't eat lamb. Farm animals should be treated as humanely as possible for the sacrifice they make and halal is NOT humane. I don't care about these prisoners, all my sympathy is with the animals.

[emmie]

i confess to being a meat eater, like to eat pork, lamb and so on, but there have been many times when i wish i wasn't. I can't get over the fact that many are ok with ritual slaughter yet wouldn't see a flea harmed..

[chaptazbru]

I hate all animal cruelty em. We have it in us to be kind and compassionate (is that so difficult) and yet this rarely happens.

[emmie]

i totally agree, so it always amazes me those who have no problem with the way some religions slaughter their animals, but wouldn't have any harm come to a cat, dog, guinea pig.

[chaptazbru]

Agree.

[boxtops]

It has been said before that if Halal salughter is delivered correctly, the animal dies rapidly. I don't think we should let this thread descend into the usual discussion about methods in slaughterhouses which have been done so many times before - and let's be honest, there have been some appalling stories asnd videos posted on here about cruelty and lack of consideration in "normal" slaughterhouses. None of us like to think of animals being killed so we can eat - to raise a story of happy little lambs in fields is emotive, to say the least - they all get killed, one way or another.

[Snafu03]

you go to prison you leave everything at the front gate; this includes whatever bizarre dietary requirements your religion dictates. I'm sure theres alot worse that finds it way into prison food.

[emmie]

this country has gone a very long way in it's treatment of livestock animals, so let's not sugarcoat the fact that some don't care where the meat comes from, how it's killed, as long as it's on a plate and edible.

[joeluke]

'Pork Found In Prison Halal Food'

So what?

Why do we pander to prisoners by offering them special dietery requirements? There should be a standard (basic) menu in prisons and the inmates either eat it or starve

For far too long have prisoners had too many home comforts such as special food, games consoles etc

Lock em up 23 hours a day in a basic cell with a mattress and a p1$$ pot. Far less would re-offend when they got out

[ummmm]

//For far too long have prisoners had too many home comforts such as special food, games consoles etc

Lock em up 23 hours a day in a basic cell with a mattress and a p1$$ pot. Far less would re-offend when they got out //

Joe, they are locked up for 23 hours a day. Stop believing what you read in the papers!!!!

Baz - No, I'm not worried about my kids, or their kids, or their kids kids...

You're worried about the Muslims, someone else is worried about the Polish. Stop worrying, life is too short.

[boxtops]

Hear hear, ummm - if you have to worry, worry about only what affects you directly - I can't affect most of the other stuff so don't lose sleep over it.

[Orderlimit]

The Sky TV and other stuff could be coming out.

[ichkeria]

96 posts in 'answer' to a non-question? I wouldn't have thought there was much to debate: mistake made, don't let it happen again if possible but...

How silly of me

[Duncer]

"Bet they find spit and snot in prison food now and again, too".


..................and the rest.

[brionon]

I think we may all be eating Halal without knowing it. After all it's easy to slaughter All animals in the same way,is it not ?