http://www.cadbury.com.au/Products/Halal-Products.aspx
So does this mean Easter eggs will have the Halal mark shown on the packet in Australia?
http://www.cadbury.com.au/Products/Halal-Products.aspx
So does this mean Easter eggs will have the Halal mark shown on the packet in Australia?
Dunno- who cares?
Those crazy fools when they eat a chocolate egg or bunny, they are OBVIOUSLY celebrating the jebus thing, definitely not a pagan fertility festival, definitely not.
As such anyone who isn't straight cristian shouldn't be able to take part.
If your eyes are a little too close together, no chocolate for you, if your a ginger then under no circumstances must any chocolate be put inside the gingered containment cell.
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well it matters to me, because what is the point on chocolate?! If they can't be bothered to read the ingredients, that's their problem. Why would I want a religious symbol on my chocolate? It's offensive to me. As for an Islamic symbol on food that is produced for a Christian festival, it makes me wonder who is making these strange choices and why? Will non halal foods soon bear a haraam sign to show how impure it is?
Last edited by j1979; 19-04-2011 at 01:26 PM.
I never realised the Easter bunny was so heavily featured in the New Testament
You don't have to be Jewish to eat Challah bread
You don't have to be Christian to eat bread and drink wine
You don't have to be Hindu/Muslim/Any other religion to eat food loosely related to a festival that isn't even theirs
lol the Easter bunny doesn't lay chocolate eggs, and if it did I bet they wouldn't have a halal symbol on them. Just a list of ingredients and some aluminium foil.
Why does chocolate need a halal sign? why can't these people be bothered to read the ingredients?
scotch eggs are nice, a welcome member to any buffet! I heard the French national sport was farting at buffets, so maybe scotch eggs should come with a potential fart warning!? I for one will be campaigning for fart likelihood warnings on food labels.
So everyone's bothered about the religious connotations not the ritual killing that is replacing previous more humane killing practices in many food products, we all eat everyday(often not marked as halal btw), based on cultural sensitivity rather than best practices or animal welfare.
This is what annoys me about this whole culture of offence, everyone gets so wrapped in it, that you MISS THE ACTUAL ISSUE.
if we are talking halal in meat then thats different, halal the refers to the method of slaughter (Dhabiha).. the only way that chocolate can be haraam (inpure) and therefore not halal is the ingredients. IE pork gelatine or cochineal (e120)
at the end of the day, some people could actually die from a snickers bar if the have a peanut allergy yet all they get is a statement saying contains nuts. Yet products have a symbol on them to say if it contains an ingredient that makes it pure, based on legend. It's the 21st century this information is not relevant, all information should be factual.
There is a very long list of E numbers that can be derived from animal products such as animal fats
http://www.vegsoc.org/page.aspx?pid=728
E numbers only require the chemical names to be declared, not the source of the chemical
A quick (I don't have a biological degree so there may in fact be more)
E304, E222, E325, 6 and 7, E431 to 436, E442, E470-475, 479, 481-483, E491 to 495, E570, E631, E640,
That is a pretty long list, add to that
E104
E160a(i)
E160a(ii)
As these may vegetarian however use gelatin derived from animal products.
Any of those 33+ could make something no longer Halal and instead 'questionable'
From working in the food industry for a number of years I know it's near impossible to get information like that from a supplier, even when the supplier in question was 30 miles away, it wasn't even possible to guarantee a gluten free product due to the factory producing the item used gluten in other products and couldn't guarantee there was no cross contamination. Same applies here.
The information IS factual, it's also relevant (they could put on the label that it doesn't contain any dolphin either if they could prove it), but clearly targeted at yourself. Obviously the perceived implications for both a nut allergy sufferer and someone choosing to eat Halal food are very different, although it certainly isn't my place to say that either party should be deprived of their information.
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