{"id":31868,"date":"2016-02-26T15:21:08","date_gmt":"2016-02-26T21:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/?p=31868"},"modified":"2016-03-01T09:17:01","modified_gmt":"2016-03-01T15:17:01","slug":"growing-trends-of-halal-food-in-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/growing-trends-of-halal-food-in-chicago\/","title":{"rendered":"Growing trends of Halal food in Chicago"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Nikita Mandhani<\/strong><\/p>\n

Devon Avenue is packed with several grocery stores and restaurants that serve zabiha halal meat. With the influx of Muslim immigrants in the U.S. over the last few decades, halal food has become a recognized term in the American food business.<\/p>\n

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Chicago and its suburbs are seeing a rapid increase in the availability of zabiha halal meat in their grocery stores and restaurants (Nikita Mandhani\/MEDILL).<\/div>\n

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According to the Islamic Food and Nutrition Council of America (IFANCA)<\/a> — foremost halal-certifying organization in the country — the Arabic word halal means \u201clawful or permitted.\u201d Most foods are considered halal except pork and its by-products, alcoholic drinks and intoxicants and carnivorous animals and birds of prey, among others.<\/p>\n

\u201cZabiha\u201d is the process of slaughtering a halal animal according to the Islamic method. The Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) states that people who follow the zabiha standard eat meat that is slaughtered with the recitation of an Islamic prayer using a \u201csharp blade and skill\u201d to minimize pain for the animal.<\/p>\n

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\nButcher at World Fresh Market in Devon Avenue is cutting zabiha halal meat for sale (Nikita Mandhani\/MEDILL).<\/div>\n

The Muslim population in the U.S. registered an increase from 205,157 in 1950 to about 7 million in 2010, according to the International Journal of Environmental Science and Development.<\/a><\/p>\n

According to zabihah.com<\/a>, Chicago and its suburbs currently have 159 halal stores and 316 halal restaurants. In the U.S., Halal meat must meet all federal and\/or state meat inspection laws before it can be sold.<\/p>\n

Photo on top: World Fresh Market in Devon Avenue sells 100 percent zabiha halal meat to its customer (Nikita Mandhani\/MEDILL).<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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