Suicidal Turkeys Taking Over America's Dinner Tables.

[evildevil]

Halal Turkey, The Other Brown Meat.

This Thanksgiving, Beware The Sharia Turkey

You may think that when you buy a Butterball turkey this Thanksgiving you’re as American as apple pie. But, you’d be wrong. In fact, you’re the victim of a “stealth halal” conspiracy.

In a column on The American Thinker, anti-Islam blogger Pamela Geller explains that halal

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[mercat]

First of all, I don't know a single thing about halal or kosher slaughtering, so if anyone could inform me as to whether or not they are actually crueller or more torturous than whatever US industry standards are, I would be thankful and interested to know.

Secondly,

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Clearly this is a big deal.

[koken23]

The usual method of halal slaughter (kosher slaughter does this also) is to cut the animal's throat with a sharp knife - a good test for this is to take your dry knife and cut down the length of a vertically hanging sheet of A4 paper (what your printer probably takes) in one continuous cut - and bleed it out

[koken23]

You're right, bolt guns aren't used for poultry. No one has yet invented a bolt gun small enough to use on a bird without taking its entire head off.

A standard-practice slaughterhouse will, however, still irreversibly stun birds before killing them - usually by setting the whole little flock up up in a water bath and running a current (about 100 milliamps, not strong, but strong enough) through it. It's closer to kosher/halal practices than anything done to larger livestock, but since animals do sometimes die in the water bath (they get a larger shock than intended) I don't think it can be officially labelled as such unless particular procedures are followed to be sure they're still alive when their throats are slit.

[mariechan]

Just want to say this.

Butterball's turkey bacon tastes SO much better than pork bacon, and it has a lot less fat and grease too!

If this is wrong, then I don't want to be right.

[echoandsway]

Yes, yes, bismillah, yes. Butterball turkey bacon is a beautiful thing. I have actually converted two people into preferring it over the pig variety.

[mariechan]

I think I converted three, it's really good c:

[chipuni]

That's because you've never had the Ultimate Bacon possible:

Lamb bacon.

Best. Bacon. Possible.

(We had to ask a butcher to save lamb bellies for us, then smoke them, to get lamb bacon. But it's just That Good.)

[sophiaserpentia]

EVEN IF halal meat has been "sacrificed to Allah," Gellar has obviously not read her Bible:

[I Corinthians 8:4] So then, about eating food sacrificed to idols: We know that “An idol is nothing at all in the world” and that “There is no God but one.”
[5] For even if there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth (as indeed there are many “gods” and many “lords”),
[6] yet for us there is but one God, the Father, from whom all things came and for whom we live; and there is but one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom all things came and through whom we live.
[7] But not everyone possesses this knowledge. Some people are still so accustomed to idols that when they eat sacrificial food they think of it as having been sacrificed to a god, and since their conscience is weak, it is defiled.
[8] But food does not bring us near to God; we are no worse if we do not eat, and no better if we do.

[sophiaserpentia]

Note: I'm not endorsing this view, as I am no longer a Christian of any stripe, but quoting it to show how Gellar's argument is actually un-Christian.

[tmlforsyth]

I'm not trying to defend Gellar's diatribe, but she is Jewish, so let's not use the "un-Christian" label, and Corinthians is not part of the Tanach. I wonder if that is a passage used to justify kosher-bashing.

[amyura]

Among certain denominations, it absolutely has been in the past, and probably still is today.

[mollywobbles867]

LOL AWESOME. We're not doing the turkey this year, so I don't know what kind I'll be eating tomorrow, but we always get Butterball for Christmas. I kinda want to read the comments to see people freaking out, but then I'd have to read a lot of racist and Islamphobic bullshit.

[poetic_pixie_13]

Lulz, according to this I've been a Sekkrit Muslim for years now. Though I should've known. Once that (delicious, delicious) halal chicken passed my lips I could feel the change upon me~

[evildevil]

this is how they get you, you are now part of the sleeper cell.

[aviv_b]

So that's why you get sleepy after eating turkey! Makes perfect sense, LOL.