Does “Vegetarian” Mean Halal?

It answers the animal question and is completely silent on alcohol. Knowing which half it covers makes it genuinely useful.

Halal, Organic and Grass-Fed Are Three Different Things

They appear on the same package and get read as one family of better-meat labels. They answer three completely different questions.

The mark on the packet is a private assurance, not a public one. Which means the certifier’s name carries all of the…

Zabiha is not a higher grade of halal. It is the slaughter method itself — and the real argument is about machine…

The federal definition of gelatin names both cattle and swine. The word on the packet does not distinguish them, and that is…

The most informative parts of a halal menu are the sections that are not there — and absence is easy to read…

A category defined by language rather than geography — which is why it covers both a mezze table and a Gulf rice…

A sign is a claim, not a verification. Three questions separate a kitchen that thinks about this from one that does not.

Sometimes more, sometimes the same, occasionally less. The reasons have almost nothing to do with the slaughter itself.

Potatoes, oil, salt. So why is this one of the most-asked halal questions? Two reasons, neither of them the potato.