Where Do We Go From Here?: Halal Food Regulation and Monitoring

As Muslims continue to settle in this country, there are a number of unique challenges that emerge the criminal legal system, religious freedom, and much more. But one often overlooked question is dietary rules requirements many adhere to. Many familiar with halal carts on street corners major cities but unaware intricacies ḥalāl food doctrine associated regulatory monitoring schemes place. While it may be inconsequential many, for Muslims, principles permissible impermissible essential understand practice. However, secular nation like United States, parsing what or not religiously compliant can difficult leave room deception fraud. With mind, Comment considers current framework identifies its shortcomings, proposing reforms three distinct areas: inspection, certification, labeling. These form quasi-public, quasi-private scheme mirrors best practices as learned from Kosher international examples, state practices. This hopes begin conversation around products how protect consumers through transparency detection country continues add rich cultural, ethnic, diversity, these questions become increasingly complex, basic consumer protection integrity production, labeling process translate need substantive reform.