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Dear [Your MP name]

Over the past 10 years or more, Shoppers & Consumers have been unwittingly buying unlabelled halal products & services through Unfair Trading in our supermarkets, shops and food outlets. I am aware that halal suppliers have been granted Government Contracts and we are also being fed halal through our Institutions… Schools, Hospitals, Prisons, Care Homes, Sporting Venues etc.

I fundamentally believe it is the right that Muslims should have the freedom to eat halal food. But we also believe that the Majority of non-Muslims should have the freedom to make an informed choice about whether or not to eat meat that has been religiously slaughtered according to sharia (Islamic law).

I therefore propose that halal food should always be labelled as such (RS), and that non-halal alternatives should always be available to consumers as their are many non-Muslim people who do not want to buy halal products & services at all – and it is unacceptable after doing some research, that our well known branded products have in fact become halal certified… yet this has not currently been displayed on the packaging.

It is particularly sickening when that Unlabelled halal certified product is FOOD – often a well-known branded product, that we have unwittingly bought, that has been tampered with through Islamic Halal Compliance – and we have bought it and eaten it, because it was not clearly labelled.

Re: Labeling – Legally we should surely be protected by…

‘The Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations 2008′ under Part 2, Section 6 ‘Misleading omissions’.

The UK is NOT an Islamic nation – Britain is in fact founded on Judeo-Christian values – so WHY is there such a vast over-production of Halal Meat when less than 5% of the population are Muslims? …and when their Qu’ran clearly tells them that they can simply pray over food to make it acceptable?

Consumers need to be able to identify whether they are buying or eating Traditional British meat or ‘RS’ meat (Halal Ritually Slaughtered Meat) and the 95% of the British population that are Non-muslims just need clear labeling in plain English.

Yet for several years we have been asking our Government, DEFRA and the EU for more transparency in labeling, but the issue has not been addressed through ‘sensitive’ arguments over stunning.

What I am asking is that the Government should Label ALL Ritually Slaughtered meat whether it was stunned, low stunned, post-stunned or not stunned at all…

For some time I have been concerned about the massive growth of sharia-compliant products for everyone whatever their faith, often without consumers, parents of school children and others being informed or consulted.

I appreciate your attention on these matters

Yours Sincerely

[Your Name]

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