UK - Mcdonalds/ KFC halal or not?

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X2 - Is giving an animal unnecessary pain b4 slaughtering it allowed is Islam? I don’t know but I’m sure it wouldn’t be

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thejoke - Thank u, I got confused with HFA and HMC. KFC does meet HFA requirements but not HMC requirements. HFA allows the chickens to be electrocuted and then machine slaughtered. So I wonder who exactly reads the dua?

now it makes sense, this is where all the confusion is. in the Quran it states no blow to the head is allowed but many argue electracuting a chicken with a brain sized of a coin is the same.

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I was going to start this thread myself. I was going to a KFC but most people I know consider it Haram, even though it says it is Halal.

TOO MANY of us are willign to accept something is Halal just because it says it is and it might be approved by an organisation. As KFC, Subway, Nandos are big organisations they will buy their meat products from elsewhere and not locally. If a local take away or restaurant says it is halal i will be more inclined to believe it because they are more likely to buy their meat from local suppliers and you would not need to know from a certificate if they are halal as you know then what the direction it takes is.

When something is declared halal too many of of us just accept it in a very sheep like way and just munch on it (me included). There are a number of issues/questions I want to raise:-

1. where is the meat for the Halal KFC/Nando’s/subway/Mcdonalds comintg from?

2. The Halal Food Authority (HFA) says they are Halal after monitoring the process? Who are the HFA and who made them the speakers on behalf of us?

3. Why is there still a doubt maybe? Thats because the HMC About HMC | Overview has a different procedure.
   The HFA allows stunning whilst the HMC does not. The HFA appears to allow mechanical slaughter whilst the HMC does not.

4. What do different sects say about the issue of slaughter? Are there different points of view?