Coventry farmer defends bacon substitute for Muslims
A Coventry farmer has insisted he is reacting to demand from traders in trying to give Muslims a taste of pork by producing bacon-style rashers from halal-slaughtered turkeys.
Rod Adlington's attempts to imitate the meat, which Muslims cannot eat because of their religion, has seen a Muslim scholar voice concerns that it could lead to people eating real bacon from pork.
The turkey farmer told BBC Asian Network he was reacting to requests from convenience stores he supplies to and said they wanted a "really good turkey bacon".
"We kept being asked for it and so we decided to produce it," he added.
"There's a want for the product for the halal market, for the pork-free market and for the slimming market."
Muslims can eat other types of meat apart from pork as long as it is halal, which means it is blessed as it is killed.
Maulana Naveed Ashrafi, a Muslim scholar from Blackburn, said he was concerned as to where eating the turkey bacon rashers could lead to for other Muslims.
"It can ultimately lead to people who only eat halal food ending up eating the real bacon - bacon from pork," he said.
"The Islamic opinion on this subject would be to avoid eating such foods which have a remote resemblance (to pork) because it could well lead towards eating the real thing."
However, Dr Haifaa Jawed lectures in Islamic Studies at the University of Birmingham, said she did not believe there was a problem in eating bacon-style turkey rashers.
"The aim of the prohibition in Islam is not to eat non-halal meat or bacon," she said.
"If there is no bacon in that form of food or, if the meat is Islamically slaughtered, it should be ok."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/coventry_warwickshire/8745812.stm
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pork and bacon look disgusting; i wouldn't want to taste them, or anything like them.
"How many people find fault in what they're reading and the fault is in their own understanding" Al Mutanabbi
How is halal 'bacon' news?
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In the middle east halal 'bacon/sausages' - etc are readily available. Uk needs to step it up.
they're easily available here too!
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i think there would be less of an issue if it wasnt called halal bacon. the two terms don't mix, its like oil and water, a pretty pathetic term.
i know in middle eastern countries they have so called turkey ham, or halal pepperoni sounds as idiotic to me.
personally i'm against the resemblence it has to pork meats, on that basis i would not eat it, but each to their own.
why not call it halal turkey strips?, and market it as an alternative to bacon rashers. Adding the term bacon and making it appear like bacon is abhorrent to me.
i don't think the scholar is right in that muslims will go out and eat real bacon, because of the resemblence. But i can understand why he is against the resemblence of the product.
this issue reminds me of non alcoholic drinks. sparkly and still fruit juices marketed as high end products in the supermarket. The bottles immitate luxury wine bottles with corks of course, and cost a lot more than a bottle of desi mango juice. The product itself is pure, but it's the immitation that concerns me. Why do we need to immitate the behaviour of disbelievers to a tee? Why do we need bottles that look like alcohol bottles, have we become that pathetic that we cannot rejoice in our own culture. It's like we are children and want to play in a wendy corner and these are our props with which to immitate the disbelievers. I don't care how much those bottles are end of the day mango juice is mango juice, get it for 1 quid or less, what fool would pay above 5 quid or more for mango juice?
i duno ppl may think im going over board but i am passionately against it these immitation products.
“O my people! Truly, this life of the world is nothing but a (quick passing) enjoyment, and verily, the hereafter that is the home that will remain forever.” [Ghafir : 39]
The world 'bacon' comes from 'back meat', so it's not necessarily about a pig.
And beef or turkey bacon don't taste anything like pork, it's just a way of curing/preserving them. I don't see any problem in this in the slightest.
And even if it IS imitating, at least it's with halal products and got going the 'whole hog' of eating pork or drinking alcohol (pun intended).
But if you personally don't want to try these products because of the reasons u said, then I respect that and may Allah (swt) reward you.
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In every cafe/restarant and Supermarket? No. In the Uk you have to look out for it and its def not available in every resturant
BND FOODS supply halal turkey rashers to your local wholesaler
Bacon substitute for Muslims? That's not gonna fool anyone. Bacon looks nothing like Muslims.
"How many people find fault in what they're reading and the fault is in their own understanding" Al Mutanabbi
No idea.
I would suspect such products are aimed more at converts - people who ate bacon before and now maybe want some alternative?
"For too long, we have been a passively tolerant society, saying to our citizens 'as long as you obey the law, we will leave you alone'" - David Cameron, UK Prime Minister. 13 May 2015.
if its stun and they dont die then its fine.
but sometimes the chicken/cow dies from the stunning = not halaal.
im pretty sure slaughtering hallaly is the least painful way and most hygienic..or am i wrong?
Is it true? Is it kind? Is it necessary?
LOL @ hallaly.
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Less likely to happen with a cow and more with a chicken.
i know...
and @ Seraph: halal-ly.
Is it true? Is it kind? Is it necessary?