Boycott Butterball for halal turkeys?

The rightwingers in the US are stunning in their ability to raise Fox faux outrage.  The latest?  Halal turkeys.

Halal is the Islamic term for "religiously acceptable."  As Jews should eat kosher foods, Muslims should eat halal foods.  For turkeys halal specifically refers to the way the animal is slaughtered.

From Wikipedia: "This method of slaughtering animals consists of using a well sharpened knife to make a swift, deep incision that cuts the front of the throat, carotid artery, wind pipe and jugular veins but leaves the spinal cord intact."


In other words, kill the animal quickly and humanely without decapitating.

How does the neo-con right see this?

"In a little-known strike against freedom, yet again, we being forced into consuming meat slaughtered by means of a a torturous method:  Islamic slaughter."

There's stupid and then there's stoooopid...

I'm happy we'll be serving Butterballs on Thanksgiving.