Do You Eat ONLY Halal Foods Or Do You Sneak Around?

[Koronto91]

I've been non-halal sober for 2 years now. Mostly thanks to Sh. Umal's convincing sermon about this issue, but also thanks to sites like this one:

http://www.eat-halal.com/

Maaaaan, did you know that even the soap bars we use contain pork fat? And ladies, do you ever check if your lipstick is veggie/synthetic and not from pork fat?

America is one messed up place.....pork everywhere.....!

I'd a cousin who almost starved himself after researching about food in America. Dude lost like 30 lbs. in 1 month....

[Advocatar]

Food is Food to me ..........aslong as it aint pork waan toobad keenaa and second, as for the soap, wax lacuno ma'ahan waa wax lisku meeydho kaliya.

[Koronto91]

LOL@Advo. Eventhough soap is used on the skin and not consumed, it can still be absorbed by the skin. Irish Spring is pork-fat-free, you neva know when you might get a visit from the angel of death...just watch it.

[paidmonk]

Gelatin.

If Somalis only knew what that was...

[Koronto91]

[quote="paidmonk"]Gelatin.

If Somalis only knew what that was... [/quote]


Yeah, man. Gelatin is in EVERYTHING. Just found out that Starburst & even Skittles has Gelatin...that BLOWS!

[paidmonk]

EVERYTHING.

What about Lard?

Its in most doughnut brands.

[Koronto91]

^Krispy Kreme uses vegetable oil when frying their donuts, atleast according to their website. Dunno about Dunkin' Donuts though.

[Advocatar]

gelatin could be from fish fat too................I remember this gurl slap something I was eating off my hands once and then was like, didnt you know it contains pork ( gelatin ), one of my eye turned green while the other purple, I was like choke this bytch right now, no one comes between me and my food. no one.....she now happily fertalising the mohave desert of san diego.

[FAH1223]

Unless I know for sure, I avoid it

but these days you never know

I just say bismillah and ask forgiveness before i eat cause I don't know...

sneaky bastards though

[Koronto91]

Manufacturers always look at ways of cutting costs. Pigs are cost efficient as opposed to cows or other livestock because they don't require much maintenance and give birth to 8 off-springs at once.

Pork derived materials e.g. fat, skin, enzymes, etc are much cheaper than fish or even cow. Therefore, the chances that gelatin or any other animal fat substance being from pig is very HIGH. Always read the label and check for the K or U symbols for Kosher or Ultra-orthodox Kosher.

[FAH1223]

[quote="Koronto91"]Manufacturers always look at ways of cutting costs. Pigs are cost efficient as opposed to cows or other livestock because they don't require much maintenance and give birth to 8 off-springs at once.

Pork derived materials e.g. fat, skin, enzymes, etc are much cheaper than fish or even cow. Therefore, the chances that gelatin or any other animal fat substance being from pig is very HIGH. Always read the label and check for the K or U symbols for Kosher or Ultra-orthodox Kosher.[/quote]

and airplanes too... ask kosher nyccaz

[michael_ital]

jesus christ. xalaal soap, and xalaal Jell-O.

[*Arabman]

[America is one messed up place.....pork everywhere.....!]

The same is true in Europe. Some Muslims are laissez-faire; they don't care about what's in the product they eat. Some argue they have to it anyway to survive. Maybe they don't know; eating Haram thinking it is Haram is a sin, but eating Haram thinking it as Halal is Kufr.

[*Nobleman*]

I dont think the Uk is as bad as the USA. I've been to America twice and my family there eats anything as long as it is not pork and i tried warning them, but then a sheikh quoted an ayah that says the meat of the people of the book i.e christian and jews are halal to you- (paraphased). but i wasnt convinced, because they do not drain the blood properly

Here in the UK most take away joints are halal and in certain areas outnumber the mcd's, subway etc, so theres not much of a problem trying to avoid it. However theres a lot of sweets, gum and supermarket products with E numbers added and they are not always halal, so we must be careful.


Also i was having a debate with an arab freind who said chicken is halal in any form just like fish, because the prophets sahaba would shoot birds and eat them, but i was trying to explain that chicken are different from birds and also arab countries such as saudia arabia import alot of chicken from European countries, so how do they come halal?