Information On Halal Meals Ready To Eat

By Christopher Thompson


You may have noticed when you have completed your maneuvers and are about to eat that some of your battalion mates are carrying around a different kind of MRE. Some are eating ones marked kosher, and others have halal meals ready to eat given to them. This is making you wonder if they are better than your ordinary MRE. Should you really want to pursue this line of inquiry, then do read on in this article for more information.

Halal food is prepared under the guidelines set in the Koran, and under the guidance and interpretation of Islamic holy men or imams. For kosher foods, the preparations are done under the supervision and guidelines set by rabbis, Jewish holy men, and the stipulations under the Torah, of Jewish Holy Book.

Almost everyone in the world will be familiar with the term halal and the symbol associated with it. Quite a lot of items are considered halal or allowed when it has the symbol on it, as being opposed to something that is haram, which is forbidden. Lifestyle choices can also be encompassed under this classification, where these be hotels, tourist spots and fashion lines and clothing. In Muslim countries there are even such things as approved television shows.

As for things kosher and things prepared via the Jewish tradition, it is gaining ground as well in terms of a following, particularly in the United States. The difference between halal and kosher foods is that the former will never allow anything artificial in the ingredients whereas for the latter it may allow items like monosodium glutamate and artificial sweeteners.

Quite a lot are still mistaken that halal and kosher can be interchanged, just because Islamic and Jewish traditions descended from one patriarchal source, which is Abraham. Nothing can be more a dangerous assumption, and one must learn not to commit the mistake when in countries in the Middle East.

Probably one of the more salient differences between kosher and Muslim preparation is the way they ritually prepare meat from slaughtered animals. For Muslims, plenty of prayers still need to be done to Allah before slaughter begins. On the other hand for the Jews no prayers are needed as long as a rabbi is the one that prepares the meat.

Alcohol can be permissible in kosher products, but never in Muslim ones. Thus you may most likely find a kosher fruitcake but never a Muslim one. This is because alcohol will always be haram in Muslim culture. For Muslims, fruits and vegetables are always considered acceptable while for Jews it can only be so as long as insects or bugs have not touched it. Fruit products will also be considered by Jews only in so far as they are also by Jewish hands.

In conclusion hopefully this article has shown the basic differences of these two kinds of religious meal preparations. Thus if this article has done its job properly, next time that you see an MRE with such markings of either preparation, you will not be as confused.




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