Would you be offended if I refused to eat Halal?

obviously

if you are brain dead, you cannot feel pain.
when you feel pain, the nerves carry the message to your brain and tell the brain what you are doing is causing pain.

if your brain is dead, your body cannot feel pain.


and fyi if you are brain dead, that is it, you are dead. people can be kept 'alive' using a life support machine but that is simply breathing for the person.

if an animal is brain dead, it has died, and dead things cannot feel pain.


honestly some people on here......

Why would you be offended at someone being vegetarian. There's far more logic and weight in the argument animals shouldn't be killed at all than that animals shouldn't be killed in a certain way. Also I'd assume their is nothing in your religion saying you can't serve vegetarian food so you'd just be being as intolerant as a person refusing to serve you halal meat if you went for dinner in their house.

Let's go back to basics:

If a throat is cut in the Halal/Kosher way, what exactly are they cutting and what is the result?

When did I say I will be offended for him being vegetarian?

I said the OP being non-veg coming to my house and refusing to eat meat at the last moment and expecting me to whip up something vegetarian. Who the hell am I to be offended if someone is vegetarian or not? If I am told in ADVANCE that they would prefer a veg meal, obviously I'll cook that. However, expecting me to cook it knowing that they are non-veg, is pretty unfair.

So before you call someone an 'intolerant' person, I would suggest you read clearly the context of someone's answer.


Also, please keep your beliefs of killing animals in a certain way to yourself. I am not forcing my beliefs on you so you have no right to tell me what's right or wrong.

Sorry if I was harsh but seriously? Try reading closely next time.

Also, I have 0 expectations of someone serving me halal meat at their house. They will obviously know I am a Muslim and thus if they cannot serve me halal meat, I won't eat. So your comparison is wrong. Oh and I live in an Islamic country so that's not an issue for me and it never will be!

would you not be offended if i put a plate of non-halaal food in front of you knowing you don't agree with it? if so you cant complain if someone gets offended when you put halaal food in front of them

Are you suggesting restaurants in the UK should not serve other people wine because its offensive to you?

Ok, from what I understand, Halal meat in prepared (as in the acutal cutting) by 1 motion across the throat while alive and unstunned. The aim is to cut the Cartriod arteries and Jugular veins.

Shame you didn't even read mine properly.

Question for you. Why would the OP be overreacting any more so that you refusing to handle non-halal meat? From an impartial perspective, there's far more logic in his reasoning than yours?

I read yours properly. Why are we even arguing? You gave your opinion, I gave mine! Lets move on?

You obviously just misunderstood anyway. I have no problem with Halal meat, I have a problem with people who won't eat halal meat on animal rights grounds. I was having ago at the op not halal meat Having re-read my post it probably didn't come across clear. Anyway as you say let's move on.

Oh... okay sorry for misunderstanding, I guess. Sorry I was rude I don't like being rude haha.

Are you a Muslim?

No I'm not a muslim, I just have a passionate dislike of stupid logic.

If I came to your house for a meal and you served Halal meat which I refused to eat it would you be offended?

It would be on the grounds that the animal may not have been killed in the most humane way possible and I don't want to eat something killed in the name of a god I don't believe in and whose teachings I don't like.

So would you be offended and on future occasions would you be willing to cook me non halal meat? As some vegetarians will cook meat for their non vege friends?

Edit: Obviously, this is a question for Muslims.

Edit: Thanks for the advice on letting the chef know in advance. The only problem is how to know if someone is a Muslim. I know some people are very open about their faith but others are not. It might be seen as insensitive if I asked ever person of Arab/ SE Asian/ E African decent if they are a Muslim when they invite me over.

1)It's not the "aim". It's a requirement.

2)But as I have pointed out above, the requirement is to cut the veins and the arteries and the best tool to achieve that is through a very sharp knife.

3)This is dependent upon the requirements of Halal not being met.

4)And what do you say about dunking 90 million poultry through electrically charged water before killing them. Is that "humane"?

1) Sorry, poor choice of wording. Still, I feel it's unnessacery pain to put the animal through.

As I mentioned in a later post there is a time and a place for these things. You can't go to a Muslim person's house and be surprised there is halal meat and expect them to go out of their way to get you non-halal meat, just like if I went to a non-Muslim person's house and they served me non-halal meat, it would be wrong of me to kick up a fuss and say it's against my religion to eat that meat. I should be tactful and politely reuse to eat the meat and eat something they have at home that is permissible for me to eat, like a cheese sandwich.

In people's own homes and in public they can choose to express themselves by not eating halal/kosher meat if they disagree with it in principle, just as I in my own home and in public will not eat non-halal meat and will be selective with the places I choose to eat at.