Since the sandwich chain announced last month that a select number of it's stores would be offering halal meat only, the entire online world has lost it's shit.
Here's the thing.
Meat, the flesh of a dead animal that you are willing to consume, is exactly that; the flesh of a dead animal.
Kosher, Halal, Blue, or Well Done; meat is meat.
This isn't a post about multi-cultural Britain. It's not that kind of blog, and quite frankly, we live in 2014, it worries me that some people are still so afraid of diversity, (I mean, c'mon people, a drag queen just won Eurovision, the world is a more tolerant place than hateful, racist online rants... we're better than that).
I think the people getting their knickers in a twist over Subway serving halal meat (those disgusted that the chain would support such a 'cruel' practise) in a HANDFUL of it's stores should face that fact that no piece of meat has come to be on your plate in a humane way. If those crying out that halal is cruel, whilst still happily tucking in to their chicken fillets, are putting themselves on some sort of humane pedestal, I am here to swiftly knock them off it.
Truth be told, when you wander around your local supermarket and you buy 5 steaks for £10 or an entire chicken for a fiver, you're buying torture. I'm not gonna sugar coat it, folks. There is no humane way of killing, skinning and plucking an animal. Those that go out there and raise animals for their own consumption may possibly be excused from this, but meat for sale on the mass market IS NOT HUMANE. It doesn't matter if it's corn feed and organic, or free range, when you buy bargain meat (and I get it, it's a tough economic climate and we're all looking to save a little dollar where we can) you buy that animal's bargain death.
You can rant and rave and throw your racist slurs wherever you please, but it doesn't change the fact that when an animal's life, (one who has been raised to be slaughtered), is up, halal or not, they don't do it humanely. As a society we are eating more meat than ever before, humane killings take time and time is money. Stunning, electrocution and pits of boiling hot water that animals are dipped into, kill the animals en masse. Just because halal doesn't allow the animal to be stunned prior to it's slaughter, does not make the practise any more or less cruel than the slaughter of animals for regular meat.
Yes, you're free range and organic dinner probably did live a FAR happier life than it's factory farmed friends, but in death, they all go the same way. It's just a sad fact.
If people are really that concerned and outraged that Subway would support such practise, I would suggest they sit down, shut up, put their money where their tweets are and go vegetarian.
This article by the BBC may clear a few things up for you too: click here.
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