In a new article in the Huffington Post, New York Imam and businessman Khalid Latif puts his finger on a crucial buzzer here,
But conscious eating comes with a price. Kurdieh said his customers often experience “sticker shock” when they see the prices of his meats.
“A pound of chicken at the green markets is $7, while they’re buying industrial chicken at $1.50,” the farmer said. “A lot of education has to happen before this becomes a widespread movement.”
The education issue came up in a conversation I had with a butcher in Leytonstone ( East London) the other day. I remember visiting his shop some years earlier and the option being available to order organic red meat. But this time he said they didn’t do it because their experience was that people didnt buy it because of the price and it went off. He went on to say something along the lines of people not even knowing what organic meant.
Awareness is something that many powerful organisation spend a lot of money trying to achieve quite badly. The halal/tayeb meat debate is still marginal, through articulating more widely these days. Globally, in the English language at least, there are more articles on the subject nowadays. Willowbrook farm’s open days and summer festival are valuable in this regard, and watching Willowbrook’s Dr Lutfi, HMC’s Maulana Dudhwala, HFA’s Awal Fuseini and iEAT’s Shazia Saleem sitting on a platform talking so knowledgeably about technicalities, change and aspirations was an important step. So far the video of the Let’s Meat event posted online in Dec 2014 has only 6200 views and 69 shares, yet its a great resource to get up to speed on the flavour of the debates and ideas involved.
What this little blog is interested in is a systematic transformation nur-tipped by political community-based campaign pushing the boundaries of ummahtic function.
Loving respect to the pioneers in the west, but this exciting political and ecological challenge may come more easily from pockets of the world with longer established (attempted) Islamically moved communities than the US and the UK. The reason is their greater influence over the assemblage of creatures, norms, consumers, authorities technologies and materials, and the relative newness and wider anti appetite for industrial meat production there.
I have not delved into this systematically yet, but there is something fitratic about a man from the Bangladeshi countryside visiting Dhaka for hospital treatment not physically being able to stomach a ‘farmed’ chicken to eat. And not in an anti technological sense, but to address the complaints of the creatures in the court of The All Knowing, Resurrector, Avenger and Witness. Technology is perfectly free to address this ecological goal.
Additional challenges for newish communities in Europe and the US include the Islamophobic stunning distraction debate, financing reformative ventures, our neoliberalistani tendencies to NGOise, boast, commodify and undercut as well as the marginal influence over animal rearing governance that being so urban, marginalised and recently arrived brings.
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