A group of MPs in Britain have expressed anger after discovering that they were served with halal meat in the House of Commons canteens without their knowledge. The Daily Star reports that catering bosses in the Commons were forced to admit that they had the food in the canteen slaughtered in accordance with Islamic law and customs.
"The catering service has unknowingly received supplies of poultry slaughtered using halal methods," the House of Commons Commission commented.
It has led to MPs, predominantly Tory, to call for food labelling legislation. Greg Knight said "This underlines the need to have proper labelling so people actually know what they are eating. It seems there has been this drive in the food industry to do everything halal so it doesn't offend people."