Persiguen a los renos con un matadero móvil, los sacrifican mirando a la Meca diciendo Allah akbar y una vez cumplidos los requisitos islámicos los transforman en jamón comestible. La semana pasada mataron a más de 100 renos, y esperan comercializar su jamón en Dubai y otros lugares musulmanes.
Norway produces first ever halal reindeer meat
The Local | 2 Dec 2013, 09:28
A
specialist abattoir in northern Norway has slaughtered the country's
first ever halal reindeer meat, with a view to selling it to top-end
restaurants as far afield as Dubai.
Harry Dyrstad
last week slaughtered 100 animals according to halal rules, inviting
members of the Islamic Council to accompany his mobile slaughterhouse
out to the herds surrounding his small meat-processing plant in
Steinkjer, north of Trondheim.
"We had the
idea one and a half years ago," Dyrstad told The Local. "We spoke to
someone who had some contacts in Dubai, and he said that if you want to
sell reindeer meat, it has to be halal, so we had to try."
Dyrstad also aims to cure some of the meat as a halal alternative to ham, which he hopes to sell to muslims in Norway.
"We got some information that we could produce some ham from the
reindeer, so the children can have ham on their bread," he said.
Mehtab Afsar, General Secretary of the Islamic Council of Norway and
one of those who oversaw the slaughter, said he was looking forward to
tasting reindeer for the first time.
"This
is a brand new halal product that Muslims have not had access to before.
I am told that this is a very good meat, but I've never tasted it
myself," he told the Adresseavisen newspaper.
Dyrstad's company, Vilteksperten, may however face competition from Russian reindeer producers.
In 2010, the Yamal Reindeer Company, based in Russia's Arctic Yamal
Nenets region, announced it had produced 1000 cans of halal reindeer
meat, which the region's government planned to offer at a Russian
investment conference in Qatar.
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