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Is your meat halal? Hi, we do not serve halal meat in our restaurants but have a range of vegetarian options :) Thanks!
Deuteronomy 14:3-10.
These are the animals you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat, the deer, the gazelle, the roe deer, the wild goat, the ibex, the antelope and the mountain sheep. You may eat any animal that has a split hoof divided in two and that chews the cud.
Mammals. Only those with cloven hoof and that chew their cuds, such as oxen, sheep, goats, deer, gazelles, roebuck, wild goats, ibex, antelopes, and mountain sheep. Pigs — the best-known non-kosher mammal — are not kosher because they do not chew their cuds. Other taboo mammals include camels and rabbits.
Giraffe. “Properly prepared, and cooked rare,” pens celebrity chef Hugh Fearnly-Whittingstall, “giraffe's meat steak can be better than steak or venison. The meat has a natural sweetness that may not be to everybody's taste, but is certainly to mine when grilled over an open fire.”
While not all giraffe hunting is illegal — people pay handsomely for safaris on private land in South Africa, Namibia, and Zimbabwe — many of those who harvest these long-necked herbivores are poachers trafficking in bushmeat.
Approximately 80 percent of all meat consumed in Cameroon is some form of bushmeat. Flesh from monkeys and apes is prized for its supposed succulence, with approximately 3,000 gorillas killed each year for illegal meat markets.
Kosher meat must come from an animal that chews its cud and has split hooves. (Cows, sheep and goats are kosher; rabbits, kangaroos, lions, tigers and fox are not).
Kashrut—Jewish dietary laws
Certain foods, notably pork, shellfish and almost all insects are forbidden; meat and dairy may not be combined and meat must be ritually slaughtered and salted to remove all traces of blood. Observant Jews will eat only meat or poultry that is certified kosher.
Storks, kingfishers, penguins and other fish-eating birds are not kosher.
Like horses, zebras are not kosher, since they neither chew their cud nor have split hooves.
An elephant is not kosher and it has tusks, not horns, like a warthog.
Lobster is not kosher: Jewish Scriptures prohibit eating all shellfish. Nevertheless, Maine's Jews have developed a pronounced fondness for one of this state's signature dishes. Many Jewish Mainers eat lobster even though they would never eat pork, another forbidden food.
Giraffes chew their cud and have split hooves, so it is technically a kosher species. Thus, if it were slaughtered, deveined, and salted according to Jewish law, its meat would be kosher. In practice, it does not seem that there is commercially available kosher giraffe meat.
"An elephant is a fanged animal; hence, it will be prohibitively disliked (makruh) to consume its meat." [3] Imam al-Haskafi (Allah have mercy on him), whilst mentioning the list of haram animals, states that it is not permissible to eat the meat of an elephant.
Donkey meat is prohibited according to one hadith.
According to Jewish dietary law, meat products are prohibited to be consumed with milk or products derived from milk, such as cheese.
The Torah forbids the cooking and consumption of any milk with any meat to prevent one from cooking a kid in its mother's milk. According to Kabbalah, meat represents gevurah (the Divine attribute of Judgment) and milk represents chesed (the Divine attribute of Kindness).
In order to make chocolate, the cocoa liquor (or butter or powder) is blended with sugar and lethicin. Starch can also be introduced into the mix, which can be an issue for Pesach since the starch is either chometz or kitniyos.
Kangaroos (and their little cousins, wallabies) are not kosher and may not be eaten by Jews. For that matter, neither are any marsupials (including koalas, possums, opossums, wombats, and Tasmanian devils).
Land animals must chew cud and bear uncloven hooves, letting out not just swine, but frogs, raccoons, possums, camels, and, incidentally, all apes, including human beings.
Despite their bulky bodies, they have a strong prey drive and easily hunt. So, people often wonder what they might taste like. Well, hippos are commonly eaten in West Africa and sold as an expensive delicacy across northeastern Congo.
Modern times. Today, all species of elephant are hunted specifically for their meat. This occurs notably in Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of Congo, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. During ivory hunts by poachers, meat may be taken as a by-product for eventual sale, or to feed the hunting party.
Bushmeat comes from a variety of wild animals, including bats, nonhuman primates (monkeys and apes), cane rats (grasscutters), and duiker (antelope). Bushmeat is often smoked, dried, or salted (these procedures are not sufficient to render the meat noninfectious).