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The Islamic Butterball? Your Thanksgiving Turkey Could Be Halal Certified

Butterball Claims Turkeys Certified HalalAre Americans merely unsuspecting pawns in a “stealth halal” conspiracy? That’s what some bloggers are saying — at least when it comes to some of the plump, Thanksgiving turkeys on offer at your local supermarket.

Halal is an Arabic term used to designate food permissible for consumption according to Islamic law, similar to the Kosher designation under Jewish law. This Thanksgiving, taking a juicy bite of a Butterball turkey could, in fact, mean you’re in compliance with Islamic law.

What is different here regarding the potentially Halal-certified Butterballs and Kosher meats, is that Kosher meats are just that — exclusively Kosher — and are always, without exception, clearly designated as such. In fact, Kosher meats are never marketed as anything other than Kosher. In this instance, it seems Butterball might be certifying its turkeys as Halal without including the designation on its labels and product information. Why?

The Blaze contacted Butterball to find out if its turkeys are indeed compliant with Halal standards, but the answer was murky at best. Butterball claims that the manner in which the company slaughters its turkeys “allow for Halal certification.” The company, however, qualified that it does not go the extra step in reciting ritual prayers over the meat once slaughtered – that process, according to Butterball, is reserved for Islamic second-party distributers who purchase the company’s turkeys. Once in the hands of Islamic distributors, the turkeys, according to Butterball, can be marketed any way the distributor deems fit.

When asked why, if the turkeys are slaughtered in compliance with Halal practice in the first place, is there no designation included on its product labels, Butterball stated that the USDA does not require them to label their turkeys accordingly.

Anti-Islamist blogger Pamela Geller, in a column on The American Thinker, explains that halal meats are already ubiquitous throughout the meat industry, but now they have infiltrated the popular turkey producer Butterball:

A citizen activist and reader of my website AtlasShrugs.com wrote to Butterball, one of the most popular producers of Thanksgiving turkeys in the United States, asking them if their turkeys were halal. Wendy Howze, a Butterball Consumer Response Representative, responded: “Our whole turkeys are certified halal.”

According to Geller, ”we are being forced into consuming meat slaughtered by means of a torturous method: Islamic slaughter.” But it is worth noting that there is little difference in the Halal method of slaughter and Kosher slaughter, as Muslims adopted the practice from Judaism. Both methods, when done properly, are meant to ensure animals are killed in a humane manner by slitting the throat swiftly with the sharpest blade possible, thus ensuring a painless kill. In both instances, the animals are not stunned or rendered incapacitated before being slaughtered. There are also ritual prayers that are said over the animal during this process.

But while it is difficult to imagine that mass-produced turkeys are killed in a manner clearly not conducive to meeting the volume-requirements of a turkey giant like Butterball, that doesn‘t mean it’s impossible.

Still, Geller contends that if you like freedom and hate sharia, you should boycott Butterball and ask them to stop selling the birds in question:

Non-Muslims in America and Europe don’t deserve to have halal turkey forced upon them in this way, without their knowledge or consent. So this Thanksgiving, fight for your freedom. Find a non-halal, non-Butterball turkey to celebrate Thanksgiving this Thursday. And write to Butterball and request, politely but firmly, that they stop selling only halal turkeys, and make non-halal turkeys available to Americans who still value our freedoms.

Robert Spencer, Geller’s anti-Sharia compatriot called the revelation “shocking” on his Jihad Watch blog, and promoted the “Boycott Butterball Turkey” Facebook page, which encourages supporters to “keep calling and writing. All halal should be labeled.”

According to the boycott Facebook page, Butterball’s Howze responded with the following email on November 14, 2011:

Thanks for contacting Butterball. Our whole turkeys are certified halal. However, if you would like to know about any other Butterball products, please email us back as to which products you are interested in using and we can get that information for you.

Again, thanks for your interest in Butterball. We hope you find this information helpful.

Sincerely,
Wendy Howze
Consumer Response Representative

Ref: Y453882

Below is a screenshot of the Boycott Butterball Turkey Facebook page:

Butterball Claims Turkeys Certified Halal

Geller and Spencer are not the only ones outraged.  The site Bare Naked Islam provided this “WARNING” for its readers: “ALL ‘BUTTERBALL’ TURKEYS ARE HALAL-SLAUGHTER CERTIFIED. JUST IN TIME FOR THANKSGIVING. I have just learned that the turkeys so many Americans enjoy for the holidays are certified Islamic-blessed, halal-slaughtered birds.”

Anti-Islamist, anti-bear activist Bryan Fischer of the American Family Association also weighed in, tweeting this warning on Tuesday: “Be advised: every single Butterball turkey sold in America this Thanksgiving has been sacrificed to Allah first.”

In the grand scheme, Halal certified meat does not necessarily make for an inferior product, but it is highly unusual that Butterball would not include the Halal certifications on their labels. On many dry-goods and dairy products there is a “K” or “U” to designate a Kosher certification — why not with Halal?


(h/t: TPM)

Comments (171)

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  • SteamedinMichigan
    Posted on November 24, 2011 at 4:53pm

    I think this article is funny – unintentional to be sure, but still funny. An Islamic turkey – ritually killed. How would a turkey be ritually killed in Islam?

    Allah Akbar – then a bomb is detonated nearby. I’m having a hard time believing it until I see shrapnel and AK47 rounds in the breast of the turkey. God (er, I mean Allah) knows they are experts in killing defenseless living creatures

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    • NoRoomForSocialismHere
      Posted on November 24, 2011 at 5:25pm

      SteamedinMichigan
      Are you a liberal christian or just a jerk

      The company said it was HALAL which is offered to ALLAH so therefore it is forbidden.

      Butterball, you sold out America for profit or rather they would not burn your factory down, such cowards in America you all should be deported

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    • NES
      Posted on November 24, 2011 at 7:03pm

      The Stealth Halal Jihadist Turkey: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying & Love the Muslim Trojan Horse
      http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/the-stealth-halal-jihadist-turkey-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-love-th/0018879

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    • Deb C
      Posted on November 24, 2011 at 8:44pm

      C’monnnn a dead turkey is a dead turkey. I don’t care how it was killed ! We eat kosher too…what does that mean ?

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    • Secret Squirrel
      Posted on November 24, 2011 at 8:48pm

      .
      “ Halal Certified”
      The turkey wore a vest and blew himself up in a school bus.
      Giblets everywhere.

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    • artistskeptic
      Posted on November 24, 2011 at 10:28pm

      Halal turkey? burried to neck and stoned to death? Makes so much stone age sense!

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    • NOBAMA201258
      Posted on November 24, 2011 at 11:49pm

      Can we make the muslims eat kosher foods ?

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    • SgtB
      Posted on November 25, 2011 at 12:38am

      All of you making anything out of this are stark raving lunatics who wear underwear two sizes too small. The “halal” butchering mainly consists of dispatching the bird in a certain way. It just so happens that in the poultry business, the easiest method to kill the turkeys happens to be to slit their throat with an extremely sharp knife while they hang upside down on a hook or in a funnel shaped contraption and are allowed to bleed out. What we have here is a coincidence of convenience and personally I’d prefer a bird that was killed this way as opposed to how pigs are slaughtered in mass. Ever seen “the killing floor” in a pig slaughterhouse? Pigs walk onto a platform, the platform shifts over under box and then the floor is charged with electricity to incapacitate the pigs so they can be put on hooks where they go down a conveyor and a machine finishes them off. Don’t get me wrong, I‘m sure it’s effective. But it isn‘t how I’d kill my meal. And I have and do kill for meat.

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    • brian8793
      Posted on November 25, 2011 at 2:46am

      Wacky faith making fun of another wacky faith. Cute……let me know when we start debating Harry Potter movies

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    • Salamander
      Posted on November 25, 2011 at 9:28am

      Visit a chicken/turkey processing plant during the pre-holiday season and you’ll hear Muslim prayer played whilst the birds are slaughtered, plucked and packed! After all the firm orders for birds to be shipped overseas, the rest end up in our grocery stores! Some of those clients are Muslims, and some of those Muslims are the people who go to work every day, plucking birds for you and me! Then, there are the kosher birds–I wonder if they are packed on the same line? Do they play a kosher prayer for those birds? Can they play both Muslim and kosher prayers together? Gosh, just think about it, from egg (and where did that come from), to hatchery, to pullet to crate to truck to packer, to truck to market to you–all for, say, $3! (Not to mention the sacrifice, poor bird had a miserable life, then a Black Swan moment before being enjoyed by your family!) Give Thanks!

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    • pgjw56
      Posted on November 25, 2011 at 9:40am

      also seems to be a crap report. I cannot find any sign of boycott butterball turkey on facebook. WTF?

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    • pgjw56
      Posted on November 25, 2011 at 10:49am

      well how wrong can I be. Facebook showed 0 results on search for “boycott butterball turkey”. but I hit enter and there it is. Guiess facebook likes total control. Sorry for the bad post

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    • Elena2010
      Posted on November 25, 2011 at 3:17pm

      @Noroom — Haram means forbidden. Halal means acceptable.

      This is a similar problem early Christians faced when buying meat at markets outside the Holy Land. The meat was sacrificed to idols in an act of worship before making its way to the market where it was sold. Halal meat has been sacrificed to the Arabic god Allah before making its way to market.

      The dilemma then becomes — to eat meat sacrificed to a pagan deity that is no god or to abstain out of conscience for others who may view that pagan deity as a god and assume that you do as well.

      Given the aggressive nature of islamic conquest, it may be a better course of action to say “No!” to halal anything. Forcing providers to accommodate halal on a national scale is just one means of stealth jihad. Muslims in the US are a tiny minority that are loud. Don’t give into the temper tantrums. When you give into temper tantrums, you teach those pitching them they have more power of you.

      Egypt and the Levant were all once Christian areas. Their Christian majorities were forced to flee or convert to islam by being made dhimmis. Pushing halal on all of us is one way they make us dhimmis and pursue stealth jihad.

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    • banjarmon
      Posted on November 25, 2011 at 11:43pm

      If the turkey has islamic words on the packaging, I will leave it in the store and not buy it. I will ask others to do the same.

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    • PKama
      Posted on November 26, 2011 at 8:53pm

      My sister and her ex-husband who is a Muslim from Afghanistan went to a stockyard here in northern California so this idiot can buy an animal to slaughter according to some Muslim ritual. This scrawny little man made the mistake of choosing the biggest billy goat in the yard. The owner of the yard corralled this animal to a small gated area of the yard and gave this idiot whom I shall call Little Rambo one of his knives.Little Rambo climbed into the area. Man..I nearly died of laughter when my sister told me what happened next. The billy goat tried to HALAL Little Rambo through his rear end with it’s horns. Somehow, the goats horns penetrated Rambo’s pants and it slammed and it dragged Little Rambo all over the place. To make a long story short, Little Rambo ended up in the hospital with all kinds of wounds and stitches. Finally my sister divorced Little Rambo 5 years ago cause she could not stand his physical and mental abuse. Now she is happily married to a wonderful Christian man.

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    • PATTY HENRY
      Posted on November 27, 2011 at 6:44am

      Isn’t is a shame that NES is not so clever, vocal and out spoken when it comes to the practices of his “faith’ in regards to polygamy, Sharia Law, child killing, honor (not) killing..you know like running your 19 year old daughter down with your American Built SUV for dating a non-Muslim…things like that.

      Glad you are so glib, dude. Maybe since you’re an attorney etc. (and playwright!!) you could have penned a few words of sadness over 9/11 or…better yet… written about why they should never build their TROPHY MOSQUE near 9/11…. use your clever brain to ‘splain that.

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  • GENE BLISTER
    Posted on November 24, 2011 at 4:30pm

    @AB5R Yes, my comments are being edited and blocked, too. The starred word that was deleted was To Welh EA d

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  • Southernsoul
    Posted on November 24, 2011 at 4:28pm

    What was the proceedure for slaughtering the turkey, again? While babbling some incoherent retoric about the US you slit its throat with a dull knife? Or bury it chest deep and then throw rocks at it? What the hell is wrong with this country?

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  • Steelhead
    Posted on November 24, 2011 at 4:25pm

    Good one Blaze. Just another morsel to feed the hate. Happy Thanksgiving everyone enjoy your hate.

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    • Talmid of Yeshua
      Posted on November 24, 2011 at 5:20pm

      I’ll be thankful when the muslums are driven from the shores of America.

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    • Doug Corrigan
      Posted on November 24, 2011 at 5:38pm

      Hate is a good thing. It helps you defeat your enemies. We need more ‘hate’ in America, and we need a whole lot less Pollyannaish, Goody-Two-Shoes idiocy regarding that putrid cult of murder, invented by a ‘hate’ filled camel-wacker named moohammad — that cult would, of course, be called islam.

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    • Latter-Day-Soldier
      Posted on November 24, 2011 at 7:57pm

      Steelhead: Go troll somewhere else

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    • 338lapua
      Posted on November 24, 2011 at 8:24pm

      @steelplatinmyhead
      It myst be wonderful to live in your world of lollipops and rainbows(homoerotic trademark). Are you really so daft as to consider eating a beast sacrificed to a pagan deity? Sorry I am not. Any company STUPID enough to admit such can do without my business from now on.

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    • Bakko Bomma
      Posted on November 24, 2011 at 9:35pm

      Steel you act like this isn’t a hate site. What the heck!

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    • marjorie faye
      Posted on November 24, 2011 at 9:50pm

      Ah yes, hate is bad, except when it is liberals like yourself hating conservatives. Then hate is justified, right?

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    • NOBAMA201258
      Posted on November 24, 2011 at 11:12pm

      Happy Thanksgiving to everyone, hope da turkey is da bomb,yo !

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    • survivorseed
      Posted on November 25, 2011 at 1:16am

      This is a travesty…I call for a boycott. I for one will never read another article by Pamela Gellar. Looks like its going to be easier to get a turkey this year.

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  • Rickfromillinois
    Posted on November 24, 2011 at 4:21pm

    Try as I might I can’t get worked up over this. That may have something to do with the fact that I buy my turkey fresh from a local turkey farm and it has never been frozen. The difference in taste far outweighs the additional cost IMO. Therefore the the most I can come up with in reference to the article is “so what?”.

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    • Doug Corrigan
      Posted on November 24, 2011 at 5:45pm

      Rick, your attitude is a problem. It’s the old “it doesn’t affect me so why should I care” problem. The filthy moslims are killing Christians in egypt. Well, it doesn’t affect me so why should I care? The filthy moslums are killing Christians in Afghanistan, but hey! — it doesn’t affect me so why should I care? The filthy muslams are killing Christians, et al, here in our own country, but hey! — it doesn’t affect me so why should I care? There are at least 8 places in the putrid koran where allah commands the muslins to kill us — when will you care?

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    • Taquoshi
      Posted on November 24, 2011 at 6:31pm

      Unfortunately, many of our don’t have that option. However, I have every intention of putting my hands on our non-Butterball turkey and praying to Lord Jesus Christ to remove any taint of any kind of ritualic prayer to idols that may have occurred. And you can bet that I’ll be praying over our other meat from now on, too!!

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  • getourcountryback
    Posted on November 24, 2011 at 4:20pm

    Just one more way these b*stards are creeping into our society and trying to get their agenda forced on us. As an American I don’t give a flying flip if they can find food that is okay for them to eat. Better yet, lets put a bill out that forbids this and force them to get the he!! out.

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    • kindling
      Posted on November 24, 2011 at 8:54pm

      I totally agree with you, but if they leave one thing behind I pray it is their law that stones people that rape children to death. That homosexual coach that raped little boys would be a good place to start that law. I like the way they try them and stone them the same day…..that works. Other wise I want nothing to do with anything else from Islam.

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  • chips1
    Posted on November 24, 2011 at 4:10pm

    Only the finest rocks are used in the death of turkeys. What’s good enough for our women is good enough for our turkeys. I’m having ham!!!!

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    • 338lapua
      Posted on November 24, 2011 at 8:34pm

      Ham,bacon, and pork chops!
      The trifecta of repellent food!!!!!!
      YUMMY

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  • GENE BLISTER
    Posted on November 24, 2011 at 4:08pm

    I’m sorry..I’m not trying to be sarcastic or instigate..but why again is it I should care? If a ********** mumbles over the bird, or a Jew or Billy Graham or Buddha or John Denver, what difference? The bird is as dead, and delicious, properly prepared, no matter what little rituals we intone. I’m much more concerned that it was done quickly, as humanely as possible and with a little respect and humility for the life thats being taken to support us top-of-the-food-chainers.

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    • AB5r
      Posted on November 24, 2011 at 4:21pm

      For Christians it is not acceptable to eat foods offered to idols. In this case the Islamic prayer to Allah (in the bible he is known as Satan) makes halal food something that has been offered as a sacrifice to an idol, a particularly evil one in this case. For atheists perhaps they can rationalize that doing everything according to Islam and Sharia doesn’t hurt them but for anyone who has their own religions belief it is a tragedy to have to conform to the demands of Islam and many Christians would rather be killed than deny Christ and submit to Islam. It is though bizarre how atheists will fight till they are bloody to keep Christianity out of the public square, but willingly like sheep accept the rule of Islam with a shrug of the shoulders and a smirk.

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    • AB5r
      Posted on November 24, 2011 at 4:22pm

      I replied but for some reason the censor is blocking my comments.

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    • AFeatherAdrift
      Posted on November 24, 2011 at 5:02pm

      AB5R. you are not eating food sacrificed to an idol. Allah is another name for GOD. Butterball kills the birds in a manner acceptable to Islamic practice. It does not say prayers over the meat. It does not carry an Halal certification because they DONT comply with Islamic law, they simply butcher in a manner that is not against Muslim practices. Get a grip. Your ignorance is showing.

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    • mikem1969
      Posted on November 24, 2011 at 5:15pm

      I don’t eat butterball, and now I never will. One step closer to sharia compliance. I will die before I comply.

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    • Barackalypse Now
      Posted on November 24, 2011 at 5:22pm

      You should care. Here’s why. I‘m quoting dumbledoresarmy’s post from another site regarding Butterball and hilal (no proper capitalization ty) prepared turkey.

      “And there is an additional problem.

      As regards meat products, since really strict halal requirements insist on Muslims doing the slaughtering, Muslims can end up gaining a monopoly on butchering and processing of all non-pork meats. In Uganda, under the Islamophile Idi Amin, Muslims ended up monopolising the meat industry…and that in a majority-Christian country; so far as I know, they still hold that monopoly.

      When halal meat becomes the norm, the default option, Muslims can potentially end up running the whole thing, from the killing floor to the butcher’s shop; and non-Muslim abattoir owners, non-Muslim slaughterers and butchers, end up being squeezed out of the business.”

      Pay attention people. Do you want YOUR butcher to be preparing your beef/chicken/fish/etc (sans pork) by way of hilal in the (near) future?

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    • AB5r
      Posted on November 24, 2011 at 5:54pm

      Feather, it is you who is ignorant, just because some people tell you that Allah is another word for god does not mean that Allah of the Koran is the same entity as the God of the Bible. The Koran contains the name of several biblical characters and places but they are all perverted and different from what they are in the bible, they both can’t be the same. And the very character and nature of Allah as described in the Koran, is 180 degrees opposite of the character and nature of God as described in the Bible. Allah actually corresponds more closely to the entity in the bible that is known as Satan. I was responding the Gene who mentioned more than just the particular turkey issue, I realize that Butterball is not saying the satanic prayer YET, but that is not the point. Sharia creeps in very slowly, accommodations are made to Islam little by little, and there is no turning back. No culture or civilization has survived the spread of Islam within their borders. Only Spain managed to get rid of Islam. Look at all the great civilizations of the middle east that have fallen to Islam, their ancestors were raped, their temples destroyed, and now they act like they have always been Muslim, they deny their own civilization for Islam! Your ignorance is showing.

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    • Chet Hempstead
      Posted on November 25, 2011 at 2:24am

      AB5R
      I’m going to make a point of going into supermarkets and saying Islamic prayers over meats that I’m not planning to buy or eat. Foolish unsuspecting Christians like yourself will buy them and never know that they are consuming idolatrous, satanic food. Bwah, ha ha ha!

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    • AB5r
      Posted on November 25, 2011 at 3:14pm

      chet, it isn’t an Islamic prayer if some twit atheist says it. But go ahead and do that, if Muslims hear you repeating their phrases they will claim you have become a Muslim, and there is a death penalty for leaving. Or if you convince them you were just joking around, in an area controlled by Islam they would just kill you for that too. So go for it, and good luck.

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  • ForMyKidsVA
    Posted on November 24, 2011 at 4:06pm

    I spent the last few weeks looking for a Butterball turkey because for some reason they are in short supply this year in my area (Richmond, VA). Finally, last week, I was able to get two. One for today and one for Christmas. I LOVE the Butterballs. I’ve ALWAYS had Butterballs. For FORTY years I’ve been eating Butterballs. NOT ANYMORE!! The one reserved for Christmas is going to be cooked and given to my DOG to eat and from now on it’ll be Jenny-Os for us.

    STOP SHOVING ISLAM DOWN OUR THROATS!!! Non-muslims vastly outnumber muslims in this country. STOP giving into them!! If they want a halal turkey they can get one at the halal butcher that recently opened in my area. If someone doesn’t want kosher, it’s easy to avoid. But the muslims are ensuring that it’s impossible to avoid halal.

    I have to go now. I need to fry up some bacon to go with this afternoon’s Butterball. I think my family will have a “laying of the bacon” ceremony where we drape tasty bacon all over the turkey and say some Christian prayers so we can bring our turkey back from the dark side. I‘ve always preferred the white meat and that’s the way it’s going to stay.

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    • AFeatherAdrift
      Posted on November 24, 2011 at 5:04pm

      You are being idiotic. Do everyone a favor and stop eating entirely.

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    • Barackalypse Now
      Posted on November 24, 2011 at 5:33pm

      I love this post so much right now! Esp. the bacon and prayer part. Best laugh all day.

      Oh and AFEATHER..don’t you have some toll to collect from someone or make them solve a riddle before crossing a bridge somewhere? Troll.

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    • ForMyKidsVA
      Posted on November 24, 2011 at 7:44pm

      Dear AFEATHER,
      It is obvious from the three comments you have posted here that either you are a Muslim who is ticked that the rest of us don’t want our country to be part of your caliphate or you are one of those bleeding heart liberals who is ignorant of the game Muslims are playing. Educate yourself on how the Muslims are trying to take over the world.

      Oh…and the turkbacon was AWESOME!

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    • NOBAMA201258
      Posted on November 24, 2011 at 11:26pm

      Happy Thanksgiving everyone; Try to remember the golden rule!

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  • jColes
    Posted on November 24, 2011 at 4:05pm

    When Pamela Geller first posted this on American Thinker we beat her up pretty badly for over-stating her case…Kosher birds and animals are slaughtered in exactly the same way…there is no substantive difference between the two — and frankly, not a lot of difference between standard mechanized slaughterhouse procedures and Kosher/Halal methods…the main difference between these two old world processes is which kind of cleric says the magic words over them.
    Neither slaughtering method is inhumane as the blood pressure to the animal’s brain goes to zero almost instantly once the Carotid Artery is severed…done properly, which includes cutting the Jugular Vein and the esophogus, the animal feels no pain. The procedure is done with the animal’s feet bound and the binding attached to a hoist line…the cut must be made with a very sharp blade. The animal is hung head down so it will bleed-out…slaughtering to meet religious standards is done by hand. For general consumers it is done mechanically … I use the same process for lamb & goat…it’s quick, clean and effectivve…plus, using this method helps the meat to age better & faster…
    I have no use at all for Muslims, particularly Arab-Muslims and Paki-Afghan Pashtuns; and I’m very pro-Israel, pro-Jewish… but I can’t get excited about using a slaughter method that makes both Muslims & Jews a little happier…and that in the end makes no difference to the American consumer.

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    • Chet Hempstead
      Posted on November 25, 2011 at 2:20am

      Plus, anyone who really gives a hoot about cruelty to animals wouldn’t eat barnyard turkeys at all. These are genetic monsters created by humans and most of them are suicidal to start with. However you kill them, it’s a mercy killing.

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    • VanGrungy
      Posted on November 25, 2011 at 8:21am

      The halal method requires the animal be alive during the draining of the blood..
      halal method requires that the nerves are not cut thus keeping the animal alive technically..

      Kosher requires the nerves are cut

      “there is no substantive difference between the two”

      I just gave you the substantive difference.. get informed

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  • Elliesr
    Posted on November 24, 2011 at 4:02pm

    God works in mysterious ways. I read this story yesterday in an email from another blog. Today we were to have thanksgiving dinner at my moms with family. Well it just so happened that her refrigerator went out and all the food got spoiled. So guess what, we didn’t have turkey, we had chicken. But I‘m still thankful we had food and I’m thankful we didn’t have the Butterball turkey blessed in the name of Allah instead of Jesus Christ, and I’m thankful for God interceding hours after I read about the Halal turkey.

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    • AFeatherAdrift
      Posted on November 24, 2011 at 5:06pm

      Do you have a clue?

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    • Latter-Day-Soldier
      Posted on November 24, 2011 at 8:27pm

      Afeather,
      Was the bird that your feather came from Halal certified?

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    • AB5r
      Posted on November 24, 2011 at 8:37pm

      Latter-Day-Soldier, that is the feather up his butt.

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    • encinom
      Posted on November 24, 2011 at 9:24pm

      THe typical parade of bigots here on the blaze. On a day we celebrate the first feast of those that crossed the Atlantic in search of religious freedom, Beck does nothing but offers up hate and religious intolerance.

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    • encinom
      Posted on November 25, 2011 at 12:08am

      @Teufel Hunden
      Somebody has to hold up a mirror to the bigots that Beck calls fans. Are you so ignorant that you can not see the irony of this bigotry on a holiday start to celebrate religious tolerance.

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    • Latter-Day-Soldier
      Posted on November 25, 2011 at 1:57am

      AB5R, EEEEWWWWWW! No wonder it’s green! ROFL!

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  • ehbardin
    Posted on November 24, 2011 at 3:46pm

    The truth has no agenda.

    The truth of the matter is that for some unknown (anti-American) reason, Butterball has chosen to appease Muslims and embrace Islamic culture and traditions, over American values, 99%ers excluded.

    What makes this so morally repugnant and absolutely reprehensible, is the fact that they have purposely chosen to do this under the radar without the knowledge of the American consumers.

    Now it is time for the USDA to mandate that any food product that is processed according to (Halal) Islamic Law be labeled as such, just the same as kosher food must be labeled.

    I encourage everyone to first write to their Senators, and Congressmen so that they can pass a bill to mandate this.

    In the meantime I for one will never by another Butterball product for any reason whatsoever.

    LIBERTEA

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    • CaliColeslaw
      Posted on November 24, 2011 at 4:55pm

      The Kosher label isn’t a requirement, why should Halal be? Let’s not ourselves stoop to the level of the 99%ers whining about how they lost their homes because they couldn’t bother reading their loan papers. Can we honestly expect even Thanksgiving to remain pure in this wicked world? The Lord led me away from Butterball and it’s ilk years ago. Get aquainted with farmer soon! We have no control over our food when we expect “super” markets to provide for us, we must find our own resources.

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  • Beltfeed
    Posted on November 24, 2011 at 3:38pm

    How about some PORK to go with that?

    http://www.cafepress.com/politicallyinjected.588457910

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  • scrapadapolis
    Posted on November 24, 2011 at 3:35pm

    ButterBall just lost my business..If we give Muslims an inch they will take a mile.just ask europe hows that muslim thing going for them?

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    • 1proud_Texan
      Posted on November 24, 2011 at 3:53pm

      My family just finished a wonderful Thanksgiving dinner. We did not have Butterball turkey this year since our bad experience last year. That turkey had an awful blood clot in the breast meat. I will never eat Halal meat! The slaughter procedure is pure evil!!! I’m surprised (not) that PETA hasn’t started a big campaign against Halal slaughters. Happy Thansgiving everyone and God bless America and our troops.

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    • chips1
      Posted on November 24, 2011 at 4:16pm

      1PROUD:
      Possibly the problem was that the knife wasn’t sharp enough. Is it muslim tested? Never a muslim when you need one!!!

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  • loafer4952
    Posted on November 24, 2011 at 3:10pm

    Well I know I won’t be buying anymore turkeys or anything that butterball has to do with it. We usually by several turkeys thru out the year. This is America and we need to be americans. It is ok to believe in your religon but when you come to America you do as Americans do. If you don’t like the way we do something then go back where you came from I am sure they will do it your way.

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  • Rayblue
    Posted on November 24, 2011 at 3:08pm

    They brainwash chickens to suicide bomb the turkeys
    in hopes of a dozen virgin chicks in the eggerlife..

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    • texasfireguy
      Posted on November 24, 2011 at 3:22pm

      Ha!! Funny!

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    • The10thAmendment
      Posted on November 24, 2011 at 3:35pm

      Egglah has to keep his martyrs happy!

      Well done RayBlue!

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    • RightThinking1
      Posted on November 24, 2011 at 4:08pm

      Well, it certainly does raise a question, I mean : ‘… the manner in which the company slaughters its turkeys “allow for Halal certification.” ‘
      I’m with others in wondering what that means. AK-47? Suicide bomber? Slow decapitation? Perhaps only slaughtering infidel turkeys? Perhaps only turkeys that are *not* infidels? All very confusing. I can’t blame Butterball if their normal processing meets Halal standards, after all, what could be better than grabbing a few dollars off of a dedicated Islamic. At the risk of jeopardizing their Islamic trade, I would point out that Butterball belongs to Smithfield…., major producer of pork and ham products, he, he. Bon appetit!

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    • The10thAmendment
      Posted on November 24, 2011 at 4:22pm

      RightThinking1
      Posted on November 24, 2011 at 4:08pm
      ———————————————————————————
      A great many of those turkeys are considered adulterer turkeys that were raped, so deserve their place as the centerpiece for dinner!

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    • Rayblue
      Posted on November 24, 2011 at 6:16pm

      They now market the “Butterbaal” for the pagan feast of the pre-midwinter maypole runaround.

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  • FORLORNHOPE
    Posted on November 24, 2011 at 3:04pm

    “Halal slaughter involves cutting the trachea, the esophagus, and the jugular vein, and letting the blood drain out while saying “Bismillah allahu akbar” — in the name of Allah the greatest.”

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  • Teufel Hunden
    Posted on November 24, 2011 at 3:03pm

    I thought the Islamic tradition of preparing a turkey for consumption was simply to behead it while reading passages from the queeran. Allah Achbird!

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    • The10thAmendment
      Posted on November 24, 2011 at 3:05pm

      Islam is a butterball. They should know we’re actively preparing them in pork before sending them to market!

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    • Latter-Day-Soldier
      Posted on November 24, 2011 at 8:39pm

      I’m just know that Jeff Dunham will have a skit with Achmed and Butterball/Halal turkeys
      “SILENCE!!….I KEEEEL YOU!!”

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  • JLGunner
    Posted on November 24, 2011 at 2:58pm

    Islamic blessed, does that mean they blow up?

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    • YepImaConservative
      Posted on November 24, 2011 at 4:07pm

      I replied to your comment JL, but my statement about putting bacon bits into the stuffing of a cooking turkey must have been too much for the powers that be here, lol.

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  • midnightgolfer
    Posted on November 24, 2011 at 2:55pm

    Cute, in a turn-about’s-fair-play sort of way. It is an interesting way to demonstrate absurdity by being absurd. But, if serious… who cares? Meaningless details that barely even skirt the actual, important issues of integration and politics between disparate cultures.

    Next time CAIR complains about something American culture does, just call them out for the turkeys they are, and skip the nonsense.

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  • R4M0N
    Posted on November 24, 2011 at 2:51pm

    Honestly… The fact that a turkey was slaughtered in Halal, Kosher or shot in the back of a pickup truck is of little concern to me. And it’s not really being forced down my throat any more than Kosher… If I don’t agree with the religion, I won’t buy the turkey. Simple as that…. Ain’t capitalism great?!!

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    • texasfireguy
      Posted on November 24, 2011 at 3:01pm

      Yes it is and I agree, no big deal.

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    • CanadianTory
      Posted on November 24, 2011 at 3:47pm

      I have a theory as to why they didn’t put halal labels on the turkey. It’s because the money they would make from Halal observant Muslims would be vastly outweighed by the revenue lost from fearful men who soil themselves at the mere thought that everyone is not a patriotic Evangelical Reaganite who caries a pocket Constitution in his back pocket and Bible over his heart, his grandpappy’s six-shooter on his belt and loves to take his two sons to GOP Rallies in his Chevy Pickup while listening to Rush Limbaugh’s podcast on his aPod (the a stands for American).

      Did I get all the stereotypes? In all seriousness though this is a silly story but Butterball could have saved themselves a lot of heartburn by simply labeling the damn turkey as halal compliant and letting consumers decide if they are okay with that.

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    • ehbardin
      Posted on November 24, 2011 at 4:02pm

      R4MON

      You wrote

      “it’s not really being forced down my throat any more than Kosher… If I don’t agree with the religion, I won’t buy the turkey. Simple as that”

      Well it’s not as simple as that, what’s as “simple as that” is that you had no FN idea that this was going on, so yes they were being forced down your throat, simpleton.

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    • NOBAMA201258
      Posted on November 24, 2011 at 11:45pm

      We have bigger fish to fry people,how bout those PETA nutjobs wanting us to eat tofu instead of turkey ?

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  • JLGunner
    Posted on November 24, 2011 at 2:51pm

    What the hell is halal?!?!? Is that the crap that makes you sleepy?

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  • FORLORNHOPE
    Posted on November 24, 2011 at 2:50pm

    I emailed Butterball to complain 2 days ago. Why are these turkeys not labeled is what I want to know.

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    • Rajabear1
      Posted on November 25, 2011 at 1:32am

      My advice? They should sip all this turkey talk and just go for the honey baked HAM…and we all say together, AMEN!

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  • lukerw
    Posted on November 24, 2011 at 2:50pm

    So what is process? Sneak up on the Turkey and stab him in the back?

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    • riseandshine
      Posted on November 24, 2011 at 3:57pm

      They probably kill all of their turkeys the same way. The article didn’t state otherwise…am I wrong?….and it sounds like the kosher method and the halal method of slaughter are about the same…which, if I read correctly, is humane when done correctly….it’s all about the labeling….oh, the outrage.

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  • tankyjo
    Posted on November 24, 2011 at 2:46pm

    Nail bomb?,Should be tender.

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    • texasfireguy
      Posted on November 24, 2011 at 2:59pm

      Nah, they just put their guns on their hips and spray bullets everywhere and hope for a hit, then run and hide amongst a bunch of women or children.

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