Meatworks pledges Christian kill
Tuesday, November 17th, 2009A Southland meatworks is buying lambs from Christian farmers, promising that they will not be killed in accordance with Islamic rules reports The Southland Times. Ricky Larsen, manager of Invercargill’s Blue Sky Meats, said the company was the only meatworks in NZ deliberately rejecting halal processing.
About a quarter of its daily 4400 lambs came from farmers not wanting a halal kill, he said. The farmers believed their stock were as Christian as they were. “There is a significant proportion of our supply base that hold that principle and choose to supply us because we don’t process to the Muslim halal requirements,” Mr Larsen said.
