The rise of Halal meat

As is so often said, ours is a nation of immigrants enriched by a mosaic of cultures, traditions, and on occasion, as Jim Axelrod finds out, a delicious slice of brisket. Deep in Brooklyn, at David's brisket house, they know from good corn beef and pastrami. Somewhere my grandmother is smiling. She'd be smiling but quite surprised by one choice in particular of the deli's owner, Riyadh Ghazali. So you don't use kosher meat. No. What kind of meat do you use? It's halal. Halal meat is prepared according to the laws of Riyadh's Islamic faith. Like kosher meat, the animals are raised and slaughtered ethically and humanely. People who walk in here, they expect a certain quality of product. Absolutely. Do they get that with halal meat in the same way they would get it with kosher meat? Absolutely. But it's not just Brooklyn where you'll now find halal meat where you didn't before. Those Halal Guys food trucks in Manhattan have grown into 94 Halal Guys storefronts in 17 states. You'll find halal meat at Poppy's Tacos in Los Angeles, at True Boy's Barbecue in Texas, and at Angola, an Italian spot in Washington DC. Chef Jamal Bouzid's latest. Whether it's Moroccan food or French food or Italian food. I can do all. But it will always be halal. Halal. Always halal. If I choose to do Chinese, I will do halal meat. It went from 200 restaurants then to 10,000 today. No one's documented the explosion of halal meats popularity with a sharper eye than halal food app developer Shahid Amanullah. The vast majority of the new restaurants that are popping up on our site are, you know, Nashville hot chicken, gourmet burgers, Korean food, but with that halal touch. Sometimes when it comes to an ethnic or religious group and intolerance, food walks point. Absolutely breaking down all the barriers. This is the same path that Chinese restaurants, kosher restaurants, Italian restaurants, they were all formed in the same crucible. We're here. We're American. Not only are we not a threat, we're a benefit. Wow. Exactly how to hear a box. Sameen Chowdhury and Jania Azad described their experience. It shows that we're kind of, we belong in the community. We fit like, you know, we're here starting their own blog about halal restaurants. We called it Muslim foodies and we didn't think it would really go anywhere. Guess again. Our food is here so we have to take pictures. They now have 55,000 followers on instagram and 77,000 on tiktok. Have you ever been in a halal restaurant and recognize the power of halal? Yep. More than 600 costco's and walmart's now carry halal meat. Kroger's Wegman's H. E. B. S. None wants to miss out on a $20 billion a year market. You're selling all this in one day. All of that in one day. A market Riyadh Ghazali is proud to have even a tiny slice of brisket, corned beef pastrami with halal meat. Should we maybe have a little hope about what's possible in the world if we can marry those cultures? Absolutely. You have a muslim guy running a jewish deli. This is the new united nation. Food is what brings people together.