Halal for the holidays: Food sales show many Muslims participate in Christmas, Thanksgiving
The first time Saima Khan and her family got a Christmas turkey, they could not see what all the fuss was about. But it had nothing to do with being British Muslims new to the traditions of the season.
They just like good meat–so they decided to produce and sell their own at their farm in Essex, England. Two years on, sales are strong of their halal turkeys, which aside from being slaughtered unstunned, are produced the traditional British way: being dry plucked by hand and left to hang.
The business only produces a small number of turkeys each year, Mrs Khan says, but they could sell them many times over. She suspects that is at least in part due to a rise in popularity of the season among young British Muslims.
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Gillian Duncan