Re: “Halal Food” vs 'Jatka"
I used to believe the same but now I realized that a bit of REASEARCH is not too hard to do in today’s world and if you can avoid non-zabiha with a bit of research, why not?
First I normally ask them “Is it Zabiha?” and 90% of them reply “Its hahal” and I insist on asking “Not Halal, is it ZABIHA or not?”. Some of them simply tell that’s its not ZABIHA and some say “we don’t know” and I just walk out or eat beef/goat (which is zabiha in 80% of the places).
Second thing that I do is ask about their supplier and give supplier a CALL and ask him if he supply all zabiha chiken/meat.
I live at a place where there is only one supplier of chicken and he slaughter the chicken with machines with “ALLAH-o-AKBAR” playing in the tape-recorder in the background. Once I did not eat chicken for 5 months and now I have to drive 5 hours (one-way) to get the chicken but I have no hard-feelings
Initially hameen thoree mushkil hotee thee but now everyone in our circle know that we only eat zabiha and they always buy zabiha when they invite us.
in the end its all about peaceful heart and maira dil mutmaeen hai