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AUSTRALIA DOES NOT SUPPORT HALAL

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The food must come from a supplier that uses halal practices. Dhabīḥah (ذَبِيْحَة) is the prescribed method of slaughteReferences

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-[[File:Halal shop sign, Rue de Patay, Paris 13.jpg|thumb|right|A halal (حلال) sign at a butcher's shop in Paris, France.]]
-'''Halāl''' ({{lang-ar|حلال}} ''{{transl|ar|ALA|ḥalāl}}'', "permissible"), also spelled '''hallal''' or '''halaal''', is any object or action which is permissible to use or engage in, according to [[Sharia|Islamic law]]. The term covers and designates food and drink as well as matters of daily life.<ref name="Quran 7:157">Quran 7:157</ref> It is one of five [[Ahkam]]—''[[fard]]'' (compulsory), ''[[mustahabb]]'' (recommended), ''halal'' (allowed), ''[[makruh]]'' (disliked), ''[[haram]]'' (forbidden)—that define the morality of human action in Islam.<ref name="Adamec 2009 102">{{cite book|last=Adamec|first=Ludwig|title=Historical Dictionary of Islam, 2nd Edition|year=2009|publisher=Scarecrow Press, Inc|location=Lanham|isbn=978-0-8108-6161-9|page=102}}</ref> ''[[Mubah]]'' is also used to mean "permissible" or "allowed" in Islam.
-The Dubai Chamber of Commerce estimated the global industry value of halal food consumer purchases to be US$1.1 trillion in 2013, accounting for 16.6 percent of the global food and beverage market, with an annual growth of 6.9 percent.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.zawya.com/story/Dubai_Chamber_Report_shows_increasing_preference_for_halal_food_as_global_market_grows_to_US11_trillion_in_2013-ZAWYA20140810094306/|title=Dubai Chamber Report shows increasing preference for halal food as global market grows to US$1.1 trn {{!}} Zawya|website=www.zawya.com|access-date=2016-08-31}}</ref> Growth regions include Indonesia ($197 million market value in 2012) and Turkey ($100 million).<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.fdfworld.com/production/206/REPORT:-Consumer-Demand-for-Halal-is-On-the-Rise|title=REPORT: Consumer Demand for Halal is On the Rise|website=www.fdfworld.com|access-date=2016-08-31}}</ref> The European Union market for halal food has an estimated annual growth of around 15 percent and is worth an estimated US$30 billion.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://gain.fas.usda.gov/Recent%20GAIN%20Publications/Halal%20Food%20Market_Paris_France_11-15-2013.pdf|title=USDA Foreign Agricultural Service – Halal Food Market|last=|first=|date=|website=|publisher=|access-date=Aug 30, 2016}}</ref>
-== Foods ==
-{{Main|Islamic dietary laws}}
-[[File:清真中國牛肉館.JPG|thumb|A halal sign in Chinese (清真) at a restaurant in [[Taipei]], [[Taiwan]].]]
-Several food companies offer halal processed foods and products, including halal [[foie gras]], [[spring roll]]s, [[chicken nugget]]s, ravioli, lasagna, pizza, and [[baby food]].<ref name=":0" /> Halal [[TV dinner|ready meals]] are a growing consumer market for Muslims in Britain and America and are offered by an increasing number of retailers.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.economist.com/news/britain/21606291-halal-food-changingjust-british-muslims-halal-la-carte|title=Halal la carte|newspaper=The Economist|issn=0013-0613|access-date=2016-08-31}}</ref> [[Vegetarian cuisine]] is halal.
-The most common example of non-halal (or ''haram'') food is pork (pig meat products). While pork is the only meat that cannot be consumed by Muslims (the Quran forbids it<ref name="corpus.quran.com">{{cite web | url=http://corpus.quran.com/concept.jsp?id=pork | title=Pork (لَحم الخنزير) From the Quranic Arabic Corpus – Ontology of Quranic Concepts | accessdate=29 December 2015}}</ref> Sura 16:115 <ref name="forbidden_food_1">{{cite web|url=http://quran.com/2/173|title=Surah Al-Baqarah – The Noble Qur'an - القرآن الكريم|publisher=}}</ref>), other foods not in a state of purity are also considered haram. The criteria for non-pork items include their source, the cause of the animal's death, and how it was processed. It also depends on the Muslim's [[madhab]].
-Muslims must also ensure that all foods (particularly processed foods), as well as non-food items like cosmetics and pharmaceuticals, are halal. Frequently, these products contain animal by-products or other ingredients that are not permissible for Muslims to eat or use on their bodies. Foods that are not considered halal for Muslims to consume include blood<ref name="forbidden_food_2">Quran 5:3</ref> and intoxicants such as [[alcoholic beverage]]s.<ref>Quran 5:90</ref> If there is no halal food available and a Muslim is forced by necessity, then a Muslim is allowed to eat non-halal food in order to prevent death due to starvation.<ref name="forbidden_food_1" /><ref>{{cite book|title=Islam|last=Maqsood|first=Rubaiyat Waris|publisher=Hodder & Stoughton|year=2004|isbn=978-0-340-60901-9|series=Teach Yourself World Faiths|location=London|page=204}}</ref>
-=== Food certification ===
-Globally, halal food certification has been criticized by anti-Halal lobby groups and individuals using social media.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZbC0zPoX2I|title=Halal Certification Stamp – Today Tonight (Australia)|date=7 March 2012|work=[[Today Tonight]]|author=Hansen, Damien|accessdate=20 February 2015}}</ref> The critics argue that the practice results in added costs, a requirement to officially certify intrinsically-halal foods, leads to consumers subsidising a particular religious belief.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.smh.com.au/national/why-halal-certification-is-in-turmoil-20141227-12cmd3.html|title=Why halal certification is in turmoil|date=28 December 2014|work=[[Sydney Morning Herald]]|author=Johnson, Chris|accessdate=8 January 2015}}</ref> [[Australian Federation of Islamic Councils]] spokesman [[Keysar Trad]] told a journalist in July 2014 that this was an attempt to exploit [[Islamophobia in Australia|anti-Muslim sentiments]].<ref name="Halal food outrage">{{cite news|author=Masanauskas, John|title=Halal food outrage from anti-Islam critics|url=http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/halal-food-outrage-from-antiislam-critics/story-e6frf7jo-1226992523050|accessdate=6 January 2015|work=Herald Sun|date=18 July 2014}}</ref>
 == Method of slaughter ==
 {{Main|Dhabihah}}
+The food must come from a supplier that uses halal practices. ''{{transl|ar|ALA|Dhabīḥah}}'' ({{lang|ar|ذَبِيْحَة}}) is the prescribed method of slaughteReferences{{Reflist|30em}}
-The food must come from a supplier that uses halal practices. ''{{transl|ar|ALA|Dhabīḥah}}'' ({{lang|ar|ذَبِيْحَة}}) is the prescribed method of slaughter for all meat sources, excluding fish and other sea-life, per Islamic law. This method of slaughtering animals consists of using a well-sharpened knife to make a swift, deep incision that cuts the front of the throat, the carotid artery, trachea, and jugular veins.<ref name="halalcertification.ie">{{cite web|url=http://halalcertification.ie/halal/islamic-method-of-slaughtering/|title=Islamic Method of Slaughtering – Department of Halal Certification|first=|last=www.halalcertification.ie|work=halalcertification.ie}}</ref> The head of an animal that is slaughtered using halal methods is aligned with the [[qiblah]]. In addition to the direction, permitted animals should be slaughtered upon utterance of the Islamic prayer 'Bismillah' "[[basmala|in the name of God]]".
-The slaughter must be performed by a Muslim. Blood must be drained from the veins. [[Carrion]] (carcasses of dead animals, such as animals who died in the wild) cannot be eaten.<ref name="forbidden_food_1" />  Additionally, an animal that has been strangled, beaten (to death), killed by a fall, gored (to death), savaged by a beast of prey (unless finished off by a human), or sacrificed on a stone altar cannot be eaten.<ref name="forbidden_food_2" />
-The animal may be stunned prior to having its throat cut. The UK Food Standards Agency figures from 2011 suggest that 84% of cattle, 81% of sheep and 88% of chickens slaughtered for halal meat were stunned before they died.
-Supermarkets selling halal products also report that all animals are stunned before they are slaughtered. Tesco, for example, says "the only difference between the halal meat it sells and other meat is that it was blessed as it was killed."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-27324224|title=What is halal meat?|first=Nick|last=Eardley|date=12 May 2014|publisher=|via=www.bbc.co.uk}}</ref>  The [[British Veterinary Association]], along with citizens who have assembled a petition with 100,000<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2932463/Millions-animals-slaughtered-halal-food-Numbers-rise-60-cent-amid-calls-stunned-death.html |title=Millions more animals are slaughtered for halal food: Numbers rise 60 per cent amid calls for them to be stunned before death |author=Wilkinson, Ben|date=30 January 2015|work=[[Daily Mail]]|accessdate=1 February 2015}}</ref> signatures, have raised concerns regarding a proposed halal [[abattoir]] in Wales, in which animals are not to be [[Stunning|stunned]] prior to killing.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2924541/Fury-plans-use-taxpayers-money-fund-halal-abattoir-refuses-stun-animals-killing-them.htm |title=Fury over plans to use taxpayers' money to fund halal abattoir that refuses to stun its animals before killing them |author=Rahman, Khaleda |date=25 January 2015|work=[[Daily Mail]]|accessdate=26 January 2015}}</ref>  Concerns about animal suffering from slaughter without prior stunning has resulted in the ban of slaughter of unstunned animals in Denmark, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/06/28/us-dutch-religion-slaughter-idUSTRE75R4E420110628 |title=Dutch vote to ban religious slaughter of animals |author=Sekularac, Ivana|date=28 June 2011|publisher=[[Reuters]]|accessdate=26 January 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2014/02/25/comment-danish-halal-kosher-ban-leaves-religious-groups-nowhere-turn |title=Comment: Danish halal, kosher ban leaves religious groups with nowhere to turn |date=25 February 2014|work=[[Special Broadcasting Service]]|accessdate=26 January 2015}}</ref> Generally, killing animals in Islam is only permissible for two main reasons, to be eaten<ref>[[Sunan an-Nasa'i]] 4349, [http://sunnah.com/nasai/42/87 Book:42, Hadith:87];Quran (40:79)</ref> and to eliminate a danger, e.g. a rabid dog.<ref>[[Sahih al-Bukhari]] 3314, [http://sunnah.com/bukhari/59/120 Book:59, Hadith:120]</ref>
-=== Meat offered by non-Muslims ===
-{{Main|Islamic and Jewish dietary laws compared|Christian dietary laws}}
-In [[Sunni Islam]], animals slaughtered by Christians or Jews is halal only if the slaughter is carried out by jugular insurgency and mentioned before slaughter that the purpose is of permissible consumption and the slaughter is carried out following the name of the God (indicating that you are grateful for God's blessings), unless explicitly prohibited, like [[pork]]. The requirement to invoke Allah's name is a must. In other words, the word ''ṭaʻām'' refers to {{transl|ar|ALA|dhabīḥah}} meat; i.e., the meat prepared after the slaughter of an animal by cutting the throat (i.e., the jugular vein, the carotid arteries, and the trachea) and during slaughter Allâh's name is invoked (Ibn ʻAbbās, Mujāhid, ʻIkrimah{{nsmdns}}all quoted by Ṭabarī, Ibn Kathīr).<ref name="halalcertification.ie" />
-[[Kosher]] meats, which are consumed by Jews, are permitted to be eaten by Muslims.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.justislam.co.uk/product.php?products_id=168|title=Lawful Foods|publisher=Just Islam|quote=Now in the case of Jews this is very easy. As long as the Jew is a practising Jew and the meat is slaughtered in accordance with Jewish law (Torat Moshe) then this meat and other Kosher food is lawful (Halal) and can be eaten by Muslims.|accessdate=2 May 2014}}</ref> This is due to the similarity between both methods of slaughter and the similar principles of kosher meat which are still observed by some Jews today.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://islamqa.info/en/103|title=Islamic ruling on Christian food|publisher=islamqa|accessdate=2012-08-26}}</ref>
-== Lifestyle and tourism ==
-{{Main|Halal tourism|Islamic banking and finance}}
-{{stub section|date=August 2016}}
-Halal lifestyle can include [[Halal tourism|travel]], [[Islamic banking and finance|finance]], clothing, media, recreation, and cosmetics as well as halal food and diet.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://cf.cdn.unwto.org/sites/all/files/pdf/best_practice_halal_life_indonesia.pdf|title=Halal Lifestyle in Indonesia – UN World Tourism Organization|last=|first=|date=|website=|publisher=|access-date=Aug 30, 2016}}</ref>
-== See also ==
-{{div col}}
-* ''[[Al-Jamia]]'', Shia text which contains all the details of halal things.
-* [[Beurgeois]]
-* [[Christian dietary laws]]
-* ''[[Dhabīḥah|{{transl|ar|ALA|Dhabīḥah}}]]''
-* [[DIALREL]]
-* [[Halal certification in Australia]]
-* [[Islamic dietary laws]] {{nb10}}
-* ''[[Istihlal|{{transl|ar|ALA|Istiḥlāl}}]]''
-* [[Ital]]
-* [[Jhatka]]
-* [[Kashrut]] (kosher)
-* [[List of foods]]
-* [[Majlis Ugama Islam Singapura]]
-* ''[[Makruh|{{transl|ar|ALA|Makrūh}}]]''
-* ''[[Mubah|{{transl|ar|ALA|Mubāḥ}}]]''
-* [[Sattvic diet]]
-* [[Scottish pork taboo]]
-* [[Taboo food and drink]]
-{{div col end}}
-== References ==
-{{Reflist|30em}}
 == Further reading ==