Halal

"Some argue that the greater halal is actually avoiding killing animals at all to eat, although this is a tiny minority among those I interviewed."

"A debate on stunned-halal versus non-stunned halal is very prominent and controversial among the halal certifying bodies."

"They acknowledge that the vast majority of Halal is pre-stunned and they seek to ban non-stun for both Halal and Kosher and so do not steer into the targeting of one religious group."

"I asked what difference there was for him between being in Bombay and being in Pakistan. He said that for him, as a businessman, there was no difference; business was business. But when you were in India or some other foreign country you were never sure whether the meat had been slaughtered in the correct way; you had to ask and you couldn’t always get answers; you had sometimes to go without."