You don't know how long its been dead. A fresh chicken is meat ier and tastes more like chicken. Halal, which has its roots in the Islamic holy book, the Koran, is similar to kosher in that it rejects pork. Halal also prohibits alcohol and animal blood. Most important, Muslims eat meat only from an animal killed in an Islamic ritual slaughter.
Most slaughterhouses prefer to kill poultry with a machine.
Care must also be taken in how the animals are treated before they are killed. They cannot be drugged or stunned. Since he opened the shop, Mansury said he has seen his business increase nearly 10-fold as customers come from as far as Pennsylvania. For the Muslims, it's the halal factor. But for my Spanish customers, it's taste.