My wife is flipping that my meat isn't halal but the halal meat is double the price. Does any know any tricks or alternatives? I eat 7.5ozs of chicken every meal 5 times a day that'd cost like $4-$500 a month halal. 1 of my friends suggested putting fake labels on my chicken breast, but I really don't feel like having to ever explain that.
You can eat Kosher meat as it is considered Halal by most authorities...this should assuage the wife while allowing you to save a lot of money. All meat that is Kosher is also Halal, making sure to avoid any meat based gelatins as they might not be halal while still being kosher. The rules for kosher include all the rules for halal and then add more rules to the mix, making it more limiting as to what is permissible...think of it as halal+. To quote from the Eat Halal website:
- While the Qur***8217;an allows us to offer halal meat to Jews and Christians but observant Jews will not eat halal because its slaughtered by a non-Jew (gentile), and they don***8217;t consider it to be kosher.
- All kosher foods are acceptable as long as
1) no amount of alcohol is present, if any considerable amount of alcohol is used then its haram and
2) any gelatin from kosher slaughtered cattle or vegetarian sources would be halal, and any gelatin from animals slaughtered without tasmiya is also haram
- It is the opinion of the author***8217;s that since the halakhic blessing is done over a specific group of animals and the slaughter is continuous, this blessing can suffice to fulfill the requirements of the tasmiya for that group of animals, and All***257;h knows best. (From an Islamic standpoint, the shochet who does not mention the blessings will be f***299; ***7717;ukm al-n***257;s***299; (i.e., the one who accidentally forgets), and the majority of scholars would deem such a slaughter as permissible, in contrast to the one who intentionally does not mention All***257;h***8217;s name.)
- And lastly, it is important that stronger ties be developed between observant Muslims and Jews so that we benefit from each other***8217;s experiences, unite against Islamophobic and anti-Semitic efforts to ban ritual animal slaughter, and perhaps also manage to influence some kosher plants to say a tasmiya for every animal. (As most modern Rabbis allow the shochet to utter the phrase ***8216;bismill***257;h Allahu akbar***8216; in Arabic before each slaughter, since that does not interfere with the rules of halakha. This practice should be encouraged and Muslims should inform local Jewish slaughterhouses that they would become potential customers if the shochetcould do this.)
eat-halal.com/opinion-are-muslims-allowed-to-eat-kosher-according-to-islam/
... alright just kidding; what I was trying to say is that if you get for example :
