Halal Meat - What You Must Know

By Author: ALM
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When it comes to buying meat and visiting meat stores for the same, many of us are confused when we read the tag because most of us are not aware what halal meat means.
Halal is Arabic word and means legal or permissible meat. Muslims prefer only mostly and do not go for haraam meat like pork. The criteria for Buy Halal Meat being that the butcher has to be muslim only primarily who has to take the name of €Allah' and then do the slaughter which has to be done methodically. The butcher has to slit the throat of the animal with a sharp knife. The windpipe and the blood vessels have to be slit too. The death of the animal should occur once this process is completed and the spinal cord should not be kept intact and the animal should be kept until the blood drains from the veins of the animal. Now about buying Halal Butchers meat. While buying meat the freshness and the quality of the meat has to be good and hence while buying meat there are certain things that have to be kept in mind. When you go to stores always check for the color of the meat. The color of the meat has to be pinkish red, if it is so, it means that the meat is fresh. Check the bones also, if they are red and soft it means that the meat is fresh. In case you are buying cooked Halal Lamb meat from halal meat stores than it has to be ensured that the meat has to be properly cooked. There are various shops that sell and they do specify that too. Halal lamb meats are also available and in demand. The lamb meats are the of lambs of the age 2 to 14 months. There are these lambs known as hot house lambs and are favorites in most of the European nations. Halal meat market in UK is huge, in billions to be precise. The fact further being that the total e of muslims in UK is just 3% but the Halal Meat Stores consumption is around 27%. There are many stores serving and some of them claim to be serving almost 10K people every day with Halal meat. So, when you are buying do keep in mind that the meat you are buying is fresh meat and because there are many stores serving halal meat you can just google up or find out from friends and relatives about reputed serving stores and go and buy from these stores.