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The Greene Space’s recent tasting and talk on halal food started with a simple question: Why now?
In the decades since eating local, sustainably and responsibly became a topic of national conversation, why is halal food – food considered pure and permissible according to Islamic dietary laws – booming in the American marketplace now?
Ibrahim Abdul-Matin, author of Green Deen: What Islam Teaches about Protecting the Planet, moderated a conversation on May 5 with three giants in New York City halal: Ayesha Kiani, founder of the South Asian-Thai fusion halal restaurant, Chal Chilli; Khalid Latif, founder of the humane and organic butcher shop, Honest Chops; and Adnan Durrani, CEO of Saffron Road, which Whole Foods always seems to have stocked. The event, “Eating Halal,” was the second in our Muslim/American panel series.
The panelists talked about halal and kosher benefitting from each other’s success, that often kosher is halal and vice versa. About 80 percent of halal is bought by non-Muslims. One panelist explained that Whole Foods’ embrace of his food product helped springboard his company.
Source: www.thegreenespace.org