Information On Halal Meals Ready To Eat

By Christopher Thompson


Sometimes when you are out on maneuvers with your platoon, you may have come to see some of your soldier buddies eating a different kind of MRE. You probably noticed that the MRE that they eat are either marked as kosher or even halal. This of course has made you more curious if these types of meals are better than the ones you eat or just the same. Thus to find out more about what are kosher and halal meals ready to eat, then do read on in this article.

Food that will be prepared according to rules in the Koran by Muslim holy men or imams. For kosher foods, these are also prepared under the supervision and guidelines set in the Torah, the Jewish Holy Book, carried out by Jewish holy men or rabbis.

Quite a few people the world over will already know what halal means, by its symbol mostly seen in products and packages nowadays. Halal means allowed and is the opposite of haram, which means forbidden. This concept also covers certain lifestyle choices as well and you can have allowed fashion and clothing and even hotels and such. In a few countries with significant Muslim populations, some television shows and programs will bear the allowed mark.

With regards to kosher and things kosher, this is also gaining ground as well particularly in the United States. Kosher food is different from Muslim food in that it sometimes allows artificial ingredients and condiments like monosodium glutamate. Muslims however, will never allow it.

Quite a lot are still mistaken that halal and kosher can be interchanged, just because Islamic and Jewish traditions descended from one patriarchal source, which is Abraham. Nothing can be more a dangerous assumption, and one must learn not to commit the mistake when in countries in the Middle East.

One salient difference between the traditional preparation of slaughtered meat for Muslims and Jews are the prayers involved. For Muslims to make the meat acceptable plenty of prayers are made before the slaughter. For the Jews, all that needs to be done is if the preparation be made by a certified rabbi.

In kosher preparations alcohol is permissible in the ingredients. However, for Muslim foods, alcohol will always be haram. Thus do not expect to have a Muslim fruitcake anytime soon, definitely you will be able to find a kosher fruitcake. Interestingly fruits and vegetables are always allowed by Muslims but they can only be kosher for a Jew as long as no bugs or insects have touched them. Likewise grape and fruit products will always be kosher only if they are made by Jews.

Thus this concludes the article to explain what the main differences between these two labels are. Hopefully the article has shed enough light on this so that you will not be so confused when you see an MRE labeled as such in the future again.




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