?Happy
Eid ul-Fitr! Last night
marked the beginning of Eid, the three day festival celebrating the end of the
Ramadan month of fasting in the Muslim world.
We stopped by our local halal market last night, the Fertile Crescent, to buy some chicken, where the store was thriving with customers buying their Eid holiday lambs . But even though we're hardly vegetarians -- we've bought our Easter lambs and Thanksgiving turkeys (complete with feathers) here for years -- we couldn't quite bring ourselves to even purchase chicken legs here after what we saw.
?Despite
Brigitte Bardot's objections, we've enjoyed buying
halal meat, thinking it was clean like
kosher butchering and less likely to be processed.
?But the
clean aspect of halal was clearly missing at the Fertile Crescent. We're not particularly squeamish about raw meat, but we must admit, we were a little shocked to see the stacked bodies of dead lambs not behind the meat counter, but out on the floor:
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