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what caught my eye today
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01 Jul 2008 Tue 07:50 pm |
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Quoting libralady: I was suprised to see on a packet of polo's that they meet the halal rules, so curious as I am I googled it and there is a list of halal sweeties!!! Nestle Halal sweetie list
Are Muslims that strict??  |
Yes, at least some are.
The Islamic Halal certification process is somewhat new and still going through refinement. It is similar to the Jewish Kosher certification and process. Kosher certifation is very sophisticated. With recent indistrialization of food processing and genetic engineering they have been very busy.
Here are a couple of examples.
Kosher Primer
Halal products
I have read of incidents where some prepared supposedly "halal" foods were sold in the UAE, When they were tested in laboratories and found to have pork products.
The food in question was reported to have been produced in Saudi Arabia.
I've added this as it's interesting
Halal Food Act Passed In Illinois Senate
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01 Jul 2008 Tue 07:54 pm |
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Quoting libralady:
Are Muslims that strict?? |
From my own experience, I would say they are. There is a large Muslim population in the town where I work and all the schools with Muslim pupils provide a Halal option for school meals.
Asda sells Halal chicken and lamb now too. They also sell gummy sweets that don't contain gelatin, by Dunhill I think.
I posted a very comprehensive list of Halal confection quite a while ago, but it is advisable to continue to check ingredients as sometimes they change for certain products and new products are added all the time.
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01 Jul 2008 Tue 09:46 pm |
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Not that I haven't noticed before, but our Congress are a bunch of idiots. $162 billion dollar war funding bill.
What the heck what's another $162 billion dollars.....Now everyone wants to give crap to George W...but he is one person and one person only, it's up to Congress to decide. Now let's see the same people in Congress, majority democrats who also voted to go into Iraq passes a war funding bill.  And what do we have to look forward to...Obama.. 
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01 Jul 2008 Tue 09:57 pm |
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yes, it's really lovely, $160 billion for the war, and at the same time they cut by %10 medicare payments to doctors and some time ago bUSH vetoed a child healthcare bill. they should all go to prison, preferably in guantanamo!  and someone explain to me how is all this possible in a democracy, where 80% of the population doesn't support the policies? this is blatant dictatorship!
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01 Jul 2008 Tue 10:14 pm |
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My son works for Walmart in the summer. As a benefit he gets an employee discount, but I don't shop there even to take advantage of his discount. They make him work second shift and they don't even give him a pay differential for working those hours. They have the biggest turnover at the one he works at. But to him it's only a job partime not a career, since he's in college. Thank God!
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01 Jul 2008 Tue 11:04 pm |
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I don't hear too many of these cases here at our local Wal-Mart but I think the biggest problem is that manyof these employees not even complain about it.... while they should stand up, speak out against these kind of practices :-S ..
I have seen (at our local WM) employees who have been working there for years, some of these employees have no education and they mistakenly "believe" this is all they are capable of doing as their main source of income. They think they have no choice and are stuck to this because they are afraid to lose their job and not being able to find something else locally. And the temporary ones, like students or seasonal employees really don't care as they know they will be leaving that job soon.
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01 Jul 2008 Tue 11:57 pm |
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Quoting teaschip:
My son works for Walmart in the summer. As a benefit he gets an employee discount, but I don't shop there even to take advantage of his discount. They make him work second shift and they don't even give him a pay differential for working those hours. They have the biggest turnover at the one he works at. But to him it's only a job partime not a career, since he's in college. Thank God! |
Not just the Far East where they abuse their workers then! Perhaps someone should video it and let Jay Leonard show it on TV, like he did once before, only that time he was exposing child labour, right in front of the CEO nose!
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02 Jul 2008 Wed 02:24 pm |
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Everest is closed for a clean up at last! The Chinese are closing Everest so that a major clean up can take place at Base Camp. It is littered with everything from oxygen cannisters, to ruck sacks, tents and even the occasional corpse!
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03 Jul 2008 Thu 02:50 am |
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Blues: "Let' s have a good time" by Berthold Engel
http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=FTRmnp74jKA&feature=related
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03 Jul 2008 Thu 10:52 pm |
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“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion, but rather by its superiority in applying organised violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.†(Samuel Huntington)
http://www.globaliamagazine.com/?id=288
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