Pity you said Halal, that means an automatic downvote from some. I'll counteract that a bit.

If I was to be killed I couldn't care less if you slit my throat with a sharp blade or stun me before killing me because they are both painful, in fact being stunned is more painful (as proven by countless research articles and videos widely available).

Halal slaughter is more humane than stunning an animal, but lets not get into that debate because there is plenty of material available about that.

Anyway I voted this HOT!

I didn't vote cold because it's halal. In fact, the absence of boiled up pig bones in children's sweets is a bonus for most people, irrespective of what flavour of religion they prefer. Everyone can get diabetes, infidel or not.

Hot because it's halal. No nasties ie;artificial additives.

Fantastic find op! Its hard to find halal sweeties that the price hasnt been pumped up on just because they are halal! Haribo charge twice the price for halal sweets.
A lot of haters on here it seems people need to grow up x

The way I look at this is as what the deal is, good that it is halal however I don't eat these sweets cos of sugar content but based upon rrp then it's a good deal. This is what the hukd website is for and not for unrelated ,trouble and scare-mongering comments.

How come my response to katestewart has been deleted but her comments still stand?

I would definately buy halal sweets - I like to know they don't contain boiled up pig skin, cartilage or bones.

Halal?? I'd rather have a bowl of Coco Pops

Hot :stuck_out_tongue:

Quite depressing reading some of these comments. People seem to turn rabid when the word halal is mentioned.

Ive just deleted a whole bunch of posts and posts quoting that didnt comply with our code of conduct.

This is a deal thread stick to that or move over to Misc where you may get a bit more rope.

Thread has been tidied. Apologies to any members who had quoted posts caught up in the tidy.

No further taking this thread off topic please. Lets leave it there. Thanks.

No offence but I'd prefer the vets that belong to the BVA, RSPCA etc to dismiss the studies and there's also the FAWC's own observations. As a doctor, you shouldn't find it surprising that slicing several large nerves and various tissues will cause some pain, given that unconsciousness likely isn't instantaneous. Anatomically, cows have it worse off due to different vasculature.

Sad to see that people are voting cold based on their own views and beliefs towards Halal.

Vote based on the price and the fact that it's a deal?

Voted hot. Most of the food we eat these days is halal without us knowing. Tastes great!

​I'm a doctor myself so I know how to interpret the studies by the societies you refer to. It's difficult to measure pain in humans neve mind animals.

cold

I expect the lemon was still alive when they slit it!

If you are going to criticise grammar, it's probably wise not to reply with multiple errors. It makes you look a numpty otherwise. ... oh wait!

Halal water - Some would disagree

http://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/malaysian-company-launches-halal-mineral-water-lumin-spring

I would suggest that you might want to check your spelling on that sentence. Check your ahem 'english'.
How can it be conflicting custom? Is there something that you aren't telling us ? Seems like your sentences/points are conflicting in my viewpoint.
What if the 'minority' as you put it was christian or secular ?

Dog eat dog world!

Love the halal threads. Always brings out the usual comments. Still quality read though to pass some time.

i see the racists are out again!!!

When I saw halal in the title thought I read some of the comments (ignorance of people) if you are not muslim then eat what you want and if you are muslim then enjoy this deal. Simple!

I wish some of the comments were made in a room with people sitting face to face the half the stuff won't be said!

I wish there was no hatred between religions/Creeds/casts and cultures.

We are the same species just like the animals and other living beings. And everyone should respect that.

Educate yourselves. If you have been to Primary school there is a subject called RE (religious education).

Respect, love and accept eachother.

If I was to be killed I couldn't care less if you slit my throat with a sharp blade or stun me before killing me because they are both painful, in fact being stunned is more painful (as proven by countless research articles and videos widely available).

Halal slaughter is more humane than stunning an animal, but lets not get into that debate because there is plenty of material available about that.

Anyway I voted this HOT!

What I want to know is why are they labeling pathetic bags of sweets correctly and not the meat in supermarkets?

I want to avoid the inferior quality halal meat and I don't want to eat meat from an animal which has suffered by non stun death. Get your priorities right and label the meat, this way there will be a huge decline in the trade of Halal meat, trust me.

​I think this is a case of the fact we buy meat for our shops from all over the world. Automatically any we import from Islamic countries will be Halal. The rest can choose but for the sake of a blessing they can sell to anyone, so it makes sense to do it. It's probably cheaper to bless everything than try to do separate processes.
As said by others mostly it's stunned anyway so it makes not real difference.
As a atheist I'm not technically in favour of religious meat, but it makes sense as a business so why worry it will taste the same!

Halal/kosher is the prophetic and natural way wheather you like it or not! Majority of the animals slaughtered today are 99.9% stunned which is even more painful for the animal.

By the way OP is this certified by HMC? (halal monitoring committee) As this is the only one I know of which does not allow stunning the rest from my research stun.

I guess that would be the research funded by petro dollars. Funnily enough there's also plenty of similar funded research extolling the virtues of circumcision.

Ugggggh... The fippin debates on here. Just vote hot or cold..

Why should my meat be blessed, when I have not asked for it to be done, and am often not given the choice due to political correctness giving preference to minorities.
There's an old expression about when in Rome, and sadly we who have ancestors who lived within the British Isles around the year 1066, are now sometimes being virtually forced to accept things we don't want and were never asked to accept, due to recently arrived wanderers who passed through safe countries because ours gives them more freebies.

What I really find fascinating about these threads nowadays is how the balance of 'membership' appears to be shifting or even have already shifted over the past year or so - far more votes in favour of all things relating to certain cultures and beliefs than there used to be.
As for having a choice whether or not to eat certain foods - I have friends living in an area which has seen the well-publicised arrival of people from a certain country. The local schoolchildren have lost their bacon sandwiches from menus due to the influence of less than 1% of the population, but the adults of a certain belief still get their free government handouts from a cashpoint machine..... without wondering if a workman has just used the machine after eating a bacon buttie from a nearby takeaway ! Makes me chuckle.

Lots of EDL members voting cold.

I lived and worked in an Eastern European country for several years, where there were many Turkish muslims from the Ottoman empire times. When travelling through villages, I would often see animals being butchered at the side of the road or at someone's front gate (due to the metal frame to hang them from) - please don't try to convince me that these animals were all stunned first, in isolated villages which make up a big proportion of these countries.
In rural areas of at least one EU country it's an everyday fact of life - make of that what you will.

The argument between stunning and halal/kosher slaughter baffles me. Unless we bring the animal back to life, we'll never know which was more painful. Either way this is the last moment of the animal. Why isn't the focus on the rest of the animal's life?

The way animals are treated in the meat industry is shocking, yet we are arguing which slaughtering method causes less pain. I wonder how much pain the chickens are in because their legs snap due to their unnatural weight.

Islam isn't a race, but for some reason most islamophobes are racist

Racist toward delicious lil piggies, cold

Doesnt stop many off you eating or drinking what you want to eat. so why moan if someone chooses to eat halal or kosher, thats there own choice and beliefs let them be

They taste amazing. Thanks. Hot hot hot for me

You guys really need to get off your lazy asses and get outside more instead of sitting on here commenting on how an animal is slaughtered, it's a deal for some damn sweets get over your bigoted selfs. An animal is still dying if your eating meat no matter how its slaughtered, if you love the animals so much go become vegetarian and for once in your life don't preach about stuff you barely have any knowledge of

It's actually 84% last year, whether it's halal, kosher or any other form of religious slaughter, if it's not humane it shouldn't be allowed. People have a choice not to eat meat if not slaughtered in what we deem a humane way.
Just goes to show, some people think if it's halal it's vegetarian. If it doesn't contain artificial colour or flavours it's natural (preservatives?) I eat meat, I don't like the fact things die for it but they shouldn't suffer. I eat sausages and black pudding etc, if things die then use it all. Religion shouldn't allow exceptions to law, either it's wrong or right. As for sweets, they shouldn't contain meat or derivatives. Don't often vote, occasionally comment but this shouldn't be hot, it should be vegetarian.

this deal should not be voted hot or cold based on any religiously correct ingreidiants. base it on pricr alone. some ppl need to get a grip and realise we are all humans. grow up

this thread is about sweets that happen to be also suitable for muslims.
fgm is practised by christians, muslims and the non religious - mostly across africa. it is cultural not religious.

true its not a question of racism its a question of ignorance.

Tragic when you get racism based on ignorance. Do your research on FGM, it's a cultural thing and unheard of outside of certain countries.

I prefer my sweets not to have been involved in an religious ceremony

Hot!

Its "Ha, Lol". At least get that bit right

Not sure sure I want my sweets drained of blood thanks.

Halal wah wah, Kosher yay yay /s

At least it's not a KFC deal lol it would have got over a 100 halal fight comments by now

You guys do realise that most pig based jellies don't get their gelatine from bones. It's actually from the skins:)

someone send a box of these to trump

Air is halal too, and water! Heat!

​Err think you will find it does contain gelatin but from halal meat

Hi,

Be careful though, because sometimes it means that the gelatine is still from animals so it is derived zabiha slaughtered animals which is perfectly halal, but not vegetarian.
Always check for the vegetarian label.

Firstly, I have never seen a Kosher deal on HUKD. Secondly, there is no half-baked irrational hatred of those who eat kosher food. If such a deal did appear, I would vote on the basis of the deal only.

What is this far more reputable research?

I would have thought the RSPCA, BVA (British Veterinary Association) and the FAWC would have reviewed said evidence when coming to their conclusions.

In what respect are the RSPCA rather cruel?

​There isn't an anti-kosher agenda to be fair.

Pretty strong lobby groups keep the kosher meat discussion a 'non-discussion'.....even though kosher has to be 100% unstunned.

Do you vote kosher deals hot too?

​nice one... well said!!

No you can't. These use beef gelatine.

Voted hot taste yummy:P

I tend to respect people's beliefs and what they find important regardless of what I believe myself. Animals have never been given the same rights as humans, they probably never will. I can see how some people can see how the killing process for halal meat is unnecessary but then again the same could be said for a lot of religious acts.

Billions of animals are killed each year, and the majority of people are ok with that. Ironically the outrage isn't that the animals aren't being given a chance at life but instead how some of their final moments are worse than others. Morals have to be different when it comes to animals we like to eat, it has to be that way for society to function.

If their is any redemption to the anti halal argument it's that maybe the people against it would be psychologically happier if it was banned. Nothing to do with how the animals think, I don't think they know enough about their future to be depressed.

what is this country coming to.

for those who are a bit lost regarding 'halal meat' i really recommend to watch this short video, our very own british reporter investigates this and its really very informative:

ENJOY

HALAL!! VOTED HOT!!! NUFF SAID!!!

Now that is just simply silly, taken from the ingredients list "Halal Beef Gelatine". Being a vegie, not good at all for us!

It doesn't matter what the RSPCA say about halal meat because far more reputable research states that it is more humane than stunning an animal. Also you can see it with your own eyes via youtube videos. In addition, the RSPCA are rather cruel to animals themselves, which is rather ironic ... I guess I will agree to disagree with the RSPCA.

Double yum, shame i stop eating sweets all together.

HALAL HEAT! :wink:

Yum

price is hot

aah its the halal beef gelatine. heat given but would never buy this because of sugar.

'no artful' - just Kosher black & white then?

Voted hot - just for the fact that there is just a cheap option and for the way the animal is slaughtered, blood and disgusting stuff drained :smiley:

It's been done for thousands of years - it works :smiley:

Anyway I am going to go and hug a tree now

<3 halal heat

That isn't true. A lot of halal sweets use halal beef gelatine.

Otherwise it would just be vegetarian.

Haven't voted either way.

It's the 21st century people...

The good thing about sweets being halal is that you can be sure that it doesn't contain any gelatine made from animals.
Good for all vegetarians as well. Hot! <3

Edit: Yes, Sorry I apologize. Point noted that all halal sweets are not vegetarian. Some of the sweets are also labelled halal because they use agar or vegetarian gum/gel.

same old crap posted in the halal deals. If you don't like it..vote cold and move along

Maybe you should if said KOSHER rather than HALAL maybe then it would of got more votes

Got them In My local yesterday

So these sweets have suffered?

COLD!

But no artful colors: are these going to be some boring brown sweets...?

HOT!

Halal

I didn't vote cold because it's halal. In fact, the absence of boiled up pig bones in children's sweets is a bonus for most people, irrespective of what flavour of religion they prefer. Everyone can get diabetes, infidel or not.

Hot because it's halal. No nasties ie;artificial additives.

Pity you said Halal, that means an automatic downvote from some. I'll counteract that a bit.

Hot

hot

Cold

cold :disappointed:

Cold