According to a report published in TIME, the Halal food industry is estimated worth $632 billion annually – that’s 16% of the entire global food industry.
The obsession of Muslims with Halal food has resulted in the word Halal being prefixed with things you would not think of in your wildest imaginations – eggs, ginger, honey, biscuits, nimko, toothpaste, chips and even Halal wine.
Ironically, around 90% of the global Halal food industry is controlled by multinationals like McDonalds, Nestle and Tesco. Most of Halal chicken consumed in Saudi Arabia comes from Brazil and world’s biggest exporter of Halal Lamb is based in New Zealand. [ALE-Xpressed] Read more [via Butterflies and Wheels]
