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Brinks Chicken has confirmed to Radio Apna News that they are now looking to introduce mechanical killing.<\/p>\n
General Manager at Brinks Poultry, Andrew Corks said it is correct that we are looking at mechanical kill and the decision to switch to a mechanical method is primarily been driven by making improvements to our employee health and safety.<\/p>\n
According to Andrew Corks the hand kill method can, and has led to workplace injuries like lacerations and muscle and joint problems. Additionally, there is a shortage of halal butchers, further supporting the move to mechanical kill.<\/p>\n
He said, in recognition of the request by some of our customers to retain hand kill as an option, on investigation of the process, we are confident that we can ensure appropriate segregation right throughout the process, and therefore will continue to offer hand kill on a portion of the birds as a point of differentiation to those customers who require it.<\/p>\n
Corks added that we are currently in the process of communicating with our customers through our sales team with the formal communication process commencing early next week, and thus encourage any customers who have any queries in the interim to be in contact with our sales team through their normal channels.<\/p>\n
He said it is important to note that all Brinks Chicken will continue to be Halal certified, with the option of both hand kill and mechanical kill.<\/p>\n
Andrew Cocks said that we are pleased to recognise the support by the Muslim community over the past number of decades, and look to a continuation of this relationship with Brinks.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile Radio Apna News understands that a large group of Muslims living around New Zealand are not happy with the move and are planning for a petition.<\/p>\n
It is also believed that Brinks has made this move after parent body for New Zealand Muslims, FIANZ recently gave aporoval to Ingham for mechanical killing.<\/p>\n
However, during Ramadhan when Radio Apna spoke to Chairman of Fianz Hilaal Commitee Sheikh Amir, he said Fianz cannot stop any company from doing mechanical killing as previously they have approved semi mechanical killing in New Zealand.<\/p>\n
Sheikh Amir was also asked during the interview by Saheri Host Shaiyaz Mohammed if he was given two options of chicken curry with machine killing and hand slaughter which one will he choose, he then replied he would prefer to go with hand slaughter.<\/p>\n
Stay with Apna for more updates.<\/p>\n
Radio Apna News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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