Boxing Day Hunt, Vine and Craven Hunt being promoted by the NWN Options

[Strafin]

http://www.newburytoday.co.uk/news/home/20...n-lambourn.html

I don't come on much anymore as I don't live close, but I try and keep up to date with my hometown. I am also vehemently against fox hunting and gave been looking into which groups drag hunt, which ones pretend and which ones advocate fox hunting. Woth support at an all time low, I was surprised to see that the NWN is promoting the hunt and the pictures as some sort of community event, and will be running a "feature" on it in the next copy of the paper very dissapointing.

[JeffG]

I think we all condemn religious slaughter, i.e halal and kosher.

Regarding halal meat getting into the food chain, I believe there was an outcry when it was discovered some supermarkets were selling halal meat not labelled as such.

I just checked and it seems that all Sainsbury's halal and kosher products are labelled. New Zealand lamb at other supermarkets is halal and unlabelled as such.

I think you'd be safe eating pork

[je suis Charlie]

I think we all condemn religious slaughter, i.e halal and kosher.

Regarding halal meat getting into the food chain, I believe there was an outcry when it was discovered some supermarkets were selling halal meat not labelled as such.

I just checked and it seems that all Sainsbury's halal and kosher products are labelled. New Zealand lamb at other supermarkets is halal and unlabelled as such.

I think you'd be safe eating pork

Thanks, good input.

[JeffG]

Thanks, good input.

A few links so you don't just have to take my word for it. A caveat: some are from the Daily Mail and date back to 2010.

2014, Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2...outstrip-demand
2014, Telegraph: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/10...halal-meat.html
2014, Telegraph: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/fo...halal-meat.html
2014, Mail: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-26...ot-stunned.html
2010, Mail: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13...laughtered.html

Some of the comments on a 2015 Express article are pretty illiterate. There is one from someone who qualifies for the "nutjob" accolade: "How much of the sales [of halal meat] go towards funding terrorism?"
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/583152/ve...pean-Commission

Edit: I had not noticed the second page before putting this together. Having read the comments above, maybe the supermarkets have put their house in order.