Where Does Your Local Butcher Get Their Meat? Have you ever stood at the counter of your local butcher, admiring a juicy ribeye steak or a row of plump sausages, and wondered: How did this actually get here? In a…

Let’s get this out of the way from the beginning: there is no nice way to slaughter an animal, and it’s a fact that the animal doesn’t get to choose. Vegans and vegetarians can take a moral highpoint regarding eating…

If you are reading this post then it is likely that are intending to type a food code into the checker on the Food Producer Search page in order to find out if a product is religiously slaughtered. This post will explain…

I am active in a number of Facebook groups relating to food. There is a lot of talk about halal, and a question that often arises is “What about kosher?”. When someone asks this question I often take a look…

If you ask a supermarket, your local butcher or an online meat supplier whether they sell halal meat or poultry, you will often hear: “No, we don’t sell halal.” But what does that actually mean? In many cases, they may…