More than 70 per cent
of all chicken slaughtered in Australia is done according to Sharia Law. This
means Islamic principles and rituals. Baiada/Steggles and Ingham have more
than 70 per cent of the market share and there are other chicken companies like
Red Lea who also halal certify their chickens.
They pay around
$40,000 per year each factory just in halal certification fees. But there are
many more costs involved. I have reported before how in some of these factories
six Muslim-only men are employed to watch, pray and rotate on a full time basis
while a machine does all the slaughtering. That is a few hundred thousand in
wages in one processing plant for a service that around 2 per cent of the
Australian population requires.
Usually at this
point the naysayers like to jump on the, “it’s for export” bandwagon.
Nuh-uh!
Chicken.org.au reports
the following:
This means that
virtually all chicken meat eaten in Australia is grown in Australia. Also,
almost all chicken meat produced in Australia is consumed locally, with just
under five per cent being exported. Australian chicken meat is exported
primarily to South Africa, the Philippines, Hong Kong, Singapore and the South
Pacific islands (DAFF), 2011). http://www.chicken.org.au/industryprofile/downloads/the_australian_chicken_meat_industry_an_industry_in_profile.pdf
These are not
countries where Islam is a primary religion or market.
How is it that
Baiada/Steggles and Ingham have been duped into paying halal certification
fees?
How is it that more
than 70 per cent of all chicken slaughtered in Australia is subject to an
Islamic religious practice and fees and yet only 2% of the consumers are actual
Muslim?
Pickering Post
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