The word "halal" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to food or other products permissible according to Islamic law. For example, "We serve only halal meat at this restaurant."
"With halal food, you get lentils and rice and chickpeas, and every Friday you get chicken".
Banister went on to say that while she would ban halal food, kosher fare would be allowed.
Joyce said failing to get halal certification would effectively cut off large export markets for Australian meat products, and warned against "picking a fight that we never needed to have".
Laming agreed with Joyce that halal certification was "essential" for export markets and "shouldn't be impeded" by the "minority campaign" against it.
A Coalition backbencher, Andrew Laming, wants a voluntary code of conduct on domestic halal and kosher-labelled food so that businesses can bypass the certification process and consumers can have more information about labelling.
I think the practice of halal meat is something that certainly isn't to my taste and I don't think it should be allowed".
Over the past couple of months there have been arson and other attacks on mosques in Hemel Hempstead, Leicester, Scunthorpe, Stoke and Kingston, as well as desecration of a Muslim graveyard and fire-bombing of a halal shop.
That group held a rally in Richmond at the same time as the forum, with speakers decrying halal certification and Sharia law.
"If we didn't have the halal market in beef, that could really affect thousands of meat workers in Australia.
He has previously expressed concern that the money that goes to mosques for halal certification is untaxed and hard to trace.
The agriculture minister, Barnaby Joyce, has issued a warning to colleagues who are against halal certification, saying picking a fight with Islamic export countries could triple the price of beef for Australian consumers.
