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Post by ♫anna♫ on Jan 22, 2013 2:00:12 GMT
I guess the Dearborn McDonalds' restaurants are on the hook since they claimed they prepared animal products in accordance with Muslim law..no pork and invoking the name of Allah when slaughtering an animal. www.foxnews.com/us/2013/01/21/mcdonald-settles-case-alleging-sandwich-sold-at-mich-store-wasnt-halal-as/ QUOTE:
McDonald's settles case alleging sandwich sold at Mich. store wasn't halal as advertisedJan. 21, 2013 DEARBORN, Mich. – McDonald's Corp. and a franchise owner have reached a tentative settlement in a lawsuit alleging that food at a Detroit-area restaurant with a large Muslim customer base wasn't prepared according to Islamic dietary laws as advertised. McDonald's and Finley's Management Co. agreed Friday to pay $700,000. The money will be shared by Dearborn Heights resident Ahmed Ahmed, a Detroit health clinic, the Arab American National Museum in Dearborn and lawyers. Ahmed's attorney, Kassem Daklallah, told The Associated Press on Monday that he's "thrilled" with the preliminary deal. McDonald's and Finley's Management deny any liability but say the settlement is in their best interests. The lawsuit alleged that Ahmed bought a chicken sandwich in September 2011 at a Dearborn McDonald's but found it wasn't halal — meaning it didn't meet Islamic requirements for preparing food. Islam forbids consumption of pork, and God's name must be invoked before an animal providing meat for consumption is slaughtered. Daklallah said there are only two McDonald's in the United States that sell halal products and both are in Dearborn, which has one of the nation's largest Arab and Muslim communities. Overall, the Detroit area is home to about 150,000 Muslims of many different ethnicities. The locations advertise that they exclusively sell halal Chicken McNuggets and McChicken sandwiches and they have to get those products from an approved halal provider, Dakallah said. He said there was no evidence of problems on the production side, but he alleges that the Dearborn location on Ford Road sold non-halal products when it ran out of halal. Daklallah said he was approached by Ahmed, and they conducted an investigation. A letter sent to McDonald's Corp. and Finley's Management by Daklallah's firm said Ahmed had "confirmed from a source familiar with the inventory" that the restaurant had sold non-halal food "on many occasions." After they received no response to the letter, Daklallah said, they filed a lawsuit in Wayne County Circuit Court in November 2011 as part of a class action. The AP left messages Monday afternoon for attorneys representing the corporation and the franchise. In the settlement notice, Finley's Management said it "has a carefully designed system for preparing and serving halal such that halal chicken products are labeled, stored, refrigerated, and cooked in halal-only areas." The company added it trains its employees on preparing halal food and "requires strict adherence to the process." He said although Ahmed believes McDonald's was negligent, there was no evidence that the chain set out to deceive customers. "McDonald's from the very beginning stepped up and took this case very seriously," Daklallah said. "They made it clear they wanted to resolve this. They got ahead of the problem." The lawsuit covers anyone who bought the halal-advertised products from the Ford Road restaurant and another Dearborn McDonald's with a different owner between September 2005 and last Friday. Since that would be impossible to determine, Daklallah said both sides agreed to provide money to community-based charities that benefit members of this group. The other location on Michigan Avenue wasn't a defendant or a focus of the investigation, Daklallah said. He said the final hearing will ultimately determine who gets what and how much, but roughly $275,000 is expected to go to the Huda Clinic, about $150,000 to the museum, $230,000 to attorneys and $20,000 to Ahmed. Daklallah said he believes it's the first lawsuit of its kind related to McDonald's and halal food. In 2002, McDonald's agreed to donate $10 million to Hindu and other groups in the U.S. to settle lawsuits that accused the chain of mislabeling french fries and hash browns as vegetarian. The vegetable oil used to prepare the items had contained traces of beef for flavoring purposes.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 22, 2013 7:14:58 GMT
I wouldn't eat a Macdonald burger unless I was starving. But if their meat really is Hallal I wouldn't eat it even then.
I was once - well, very hungry - when staying overnight in Los Angeles one December 27th. The travel company managed to book us into an "airport hotel" in a residential area some three miles from the airport, and when we arrived the restaurant was still closed for Christmas. The only thing within walking distance was a Kentucky Fried Chicken, and because of what I know about the way their chickens are reared, I went supperless (and sadly, sleepless).
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Post by Deleted on Jan 22, 2013 8:40:16 GMT
I love Macds that's one of my treats, especially love their breakfasts if they misrepresented what they were selling then they should be sued. quite right!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 22, 2013 12:43:28 GMT
MaccyDs have done more to destroy taste buds around the world than almost any other food retailer in history.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 22, 2013 12:49:42 GMT
my taste buds are doing fine.
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Post by Hunny on Jan 22, 2013 14:32:30 GMT
Let me get this straight...someone got awarded most of a million dollars because someone may or may not have said "God" before he killed the chicken?
And someone else got 10 million(!) because they had trace amounts of beef flavoring in the fries?
HUH!
That's ludicrous!
How could ANYONE claim 10 MILLION dollars worth of damage was caused them because they unknowingly ingested TRACE amounts of beef? Don't the awards have to be proportional to the 'crime'? At ALL?
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Post by sadie1263 on Jan 22, 2013 14:59:42 GMT
If you want a halal prepared meal......go to a halal restaurant.
Of course, the McD's should not have advertised that it was preparing it's meat that way. It does make it false advertising.
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Post by DAS (formerly BushAdmirer) on Jan 23, 2013 0:57:55 GMT
I think those Muslims should be deported from Detroit and from America. They really don't fit in here.
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Post by mikemarshall on Jan 23, 2013 1:07:24 GMT
I think those Muslims should be deported from Detroit and from America. They really don't fit in here. Perhaps the answer is to deport any immigrants who have settled in America since 1492!
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Post by alanseago on Jan 27, 2013 18:15:23 GMT
I think those Muslims should be deported from Detroit and from America. They really don't fit in here. Deported from Detroit and America? The entire continent North and South, how is that done or were you trying to mean something else?
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Post by sadie1263 on Jan 27, 2013 20:48:57 GMT
How could ANYONE claim 10 MILLION dollars worth of damage was caused them because they unknowingly ingested TRACE amounts of beef? Don't the awards have to be proportional to the 'crime'? At ALL? It's because lawyers have made our court system people's personal lottery........the judgement amounts handed out anymore are beyond ludicrous and we all end up paying for them.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 27, 2013 21:27:19 GMT
In't it the case that in the USA it is juries rather than the judge who set the level of compensation? That seems odd to me.
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Post by Synonym on Jan 27, 2013 21:31:49 GMT
if they misrepresented what they were selling then they should be sued. quite right! Indeed. Especially when the misrepresentation is such that it at is liable to go against the deeply held convictions of those who mistakenly purchase it. Whether that is religious or vegan beliefs. Mind you in a toss up I'd have more sympathy with the vegan who is concerned because their food involved more suffering that they would have liked, than the religious person who is concerned because their food involved less.
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Post by Synonym on Jan 27, 2013 21:47:33 GMT
Let me get this straight...someone got awarded most of a million dollars because someone may or may not have said "God" before he killed the chicken? And someone else got 10 million(!) because they had trace amounts of beef flavoring in the fries? I think that Halal food is about more than just that though; although I'd agree that a million dollars (or about 630000 pounds in real money) is rather large, even for tricking someone into contradicting sacred beliefs. Is there an element of adjustment upwards due to the size of the business? What I mean is, richer folk pay heavier fines. Or does it not work like that.
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Post by alanseago on Jan 27, 2013 22:44:43 GMT
If my butcher gave me dog labelled as beef, I might complain. There would me calls to leave Europe and everywhere else in France.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 28, 2013 7:13:54 GMT
A vegan is pretty safe. People who need to worry are those who like to ensure that the meat they eat has been humanely kept during its life and killed. There are a number of labels we can look for in England that ensure the former, but I don't believe any of them guarantee that meat has been killed in a particular way.
If a restaurant claims that all its meat is halal there should be a notice up to say so, warning all its customers.
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Post by ♫anna♫ on Jan 28, 2013 13:50:18 GMT
I wouldn't eat a Macdonald burger unless I was starving. But if their meat really is Hallal I wouldn't eat it even then. I was once - well, very hungry - when staying overnight in Los Angeles one December 27th. The travel company managed to book us into an "airport hotel" in a residential area some three miles from the airport, and when we arrived the restaurant was still closed for Christmas. The only thing within walking distance was a Kentucky Fried Chicken, and because of what I know about the way their chickens are reared, I went supperless (and sadly, sleepless). I absolutely hated McDonalds' hamburgers and hamburgers in general in the US! They were full of globs of fat, ground up grisle and other gunk. In Germany McDonalds adapted to the market demand and sold 100% red meat beef only as hamburgers. I don't know if McDonalds' did this in the US and elsewhere.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 28, 2013 23:32:15 GMT
I was in Sarpi,Turkey last summer and had a great Whopper.Tasted just like the ole USA ;D
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Post by ♫anna♫ on Feb 11, 2013 12:32:56 GMT
I was in Sarpi,Turkey last summer and had a great Whopper.Tasted just like the ole USA ;D That's Burger King of course!
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