meat they serve is not halal??

TheLegendLeads wrote:

This is a controversial topic because many people like to weigh in their opinion based on what they know.

We have a government body here called SFDA (Saudi Food and Drug Authority).
It's head is HRH: the Crown Prince.

The following ministries take care of that:
- Municipality and Rural Affairs
- Ministry of Interior
- Ministry of Health
- Ministry of Commerce and Industry
- Ministry of Agriculture
- Ministry of Water and Electricity
- Ministry of Finance
- Ministry of Economic and Planning

Also:
- Saudi Arabian Standards and Specification Organization
- Council of Chambers of Commerce and Industry in the Kingdom

The purpose of writing all this is to ensure you that ALL those guys take care of what you are asking about. They have very strict adherence to govern haraam/halaal when it comes to any edibles especially the meat. Each and every import is properly taken care of against the SASO standards.

I remember a case of an imported pickle that had mustard in it but the package contents didn't say that. As many around us are allergic to mustard, just to safeguard  them SFDA immediately blocked them from exporting to KSA. Not only that, the company was blacklisted as well. What do you expect about chicken and meat; you tell me?

Great!! Thanks for the information... 

Akprince wrote:

Thanks for reminding us THELEGENDLEADS, But we can't be assure about that, as you not aware from ALCOHAL which is available most of private compounds too? how it's come here if their security is to strict as it's HARAM in Islam too. I agreed they have some specific Organization to control such things, but don't forget till it's all under few peoples and they can cheat with money. No harm feeling brother, Just be wise once it's come to our Religion

Allah save us from Haram... very difficult to know where and what to eat...

hamudi wrote:

Say the "Bism..." and eat it.

religion is made easy...don't complicate it...

You are absolutely right, ... May Allah save us.

alpha.one wrote:

There is no limit to doubts....once we open the door it will not shut by itself, there is always 'what if...'

Yes there are people who will do anything for money, but there are also people who will not sell themselves, there are people with values and morals as well.

There will always be bad examples but good is greater than evil, there are more good people than bad, even if the media would like us to believe otherwise.

Every country has its regulatory authorities, which MOSTLY do their job and ensure that all things are according to the standards set in the country by law.

Examples:
- What if.....You were switched at birth at the hospital?
- what if....each time we buy something the labels are lies and their weighing machines at supermarkets are lying?
- what if everyone is lying to us?

What if what if what it...?
There is no limit.

Please know as TLL said about there are regulatory authorities which ensure that all meats and food imported into the country is exactly what it says on the label i.e. HALAL

However, I would not eat Mcdonalds anyway because its not healthy not because its not halal.

I agreed somehow there is good and bad people everywhere of the world, I accepted about my country too there is everything import and export even under the table.

But what is my opinion, we are not assure 100% is HALAL what come to us, ''Allah knows better''
Peace

hamudi wrote:

Say the "Bism..." and eat it.

religion is made easy...don't complicate it...

Well said hamuds......the problem these days is not extremism but too much confused moderation.

Primadonna wrote:

Interesting topic but don't make it hard on yourself. Why you should worrying if it's someone else his job to control that?

And yes, there is alcohol in compounds and elsewhere.  But that's private and not of your concern.

A simple rule: if you don't trust, leave it.

It's not my problem either they drink alcohal or not, and neither i have concern about that. It was my reply to someone up there who posted lot's of authorities here to check before something import to this place, and he was trying to said haram meat can't be import here, so that was my answer to him, if there is lot's of authorities then why alcohal is available here? it's also strictly haram too. So if ever they let them to brought here alcohal, then we can't be sure if they stop haram meat to import here.

Smuggling exists everywhere in the world. The problem is: it is not governable or regulate-able because of whatever. If it were, it would NOT exist in the first place. How can you quote a statistically tiny number of cases to validate a regulation? No, you can't!

Having said that, what else do you want? Do you want us to catch all smugglers and bring them to this site for questioning?