Nehurongwa hwechikafu hwemaindasitiri hwakajairwa nekurima muUnited States, kubva kunzira dzekuuraira dzinoitwa kune mishonga yezvipembenene inoshandiswa mumapurazi ezvirimwa, Samer Saleh akawana kunamatira kune kudya kunoenderana nemirairo yeIslam hazvigoneke. Mhinduro yake? Akavamba purazi rake kuitira kuti iye nemhuri yake vacherechedze mitemo yezvekudya yeIslam uye anogona kugovera chikafu chechisikigo uye cheorganic nevamwe.
Muna 2013, Samer, anobva kuAlexandria, Egypt, akatanga Halal Pastures, purazi rake muRock Tavern, New York, makiromita makumi matanhatu kuchamhembe kweManhattan. Ikoko iye nemhuri yake vanochengeta uye vachitengesa nyama yemombe, nyama yemombe, yehuku, yeturuki negwayana, mazai akachengetwa mumafuro, uye michero nemiriwo zvinorimwa nouswa.
Mumutemo wechiIslam, halal, zvinoreva zvinotenderwa uye zviri pamutemo, inotsanangura izvo muMuslim anogona uye asingadyi kana kunwa. Kuti nyama ive halal haifanire kunge iri nyama yemhuka inorambidzwa zvachose uye inofanirwa kusimudzwa nekuurayiwa zvinoenderana nemirairo chaiyo. Kuti zvinwiwa zvive halal zvinofanirwa kugadzirwa munzvimbo dzakachena uye hazvifanirwe kunge zvine zvinhu zvinorambidzwa zvakaita sedoro. Halal ine zvimwe zvakafanana kune kashrut, mitemo yakadzikwa mukati mechiJudha inokodzera zvokudya se kosher. Kashrut uye halal mitemo inorambidza kudya nyama yenguruve, semuenzaniso.
“Muchitendero chedu, zvokudya zvinosimbisa muviri wako zvechokwadi,” akadaro Samer. “Chatinoisa muzvokudya zvedu, kana kuti kunyange mumuviri wedu, ndicho chatinobudisa. Uye kana chikafu chatinoisa mumuviri wedu chakanaka, halal, chakachena, munotenda kuti chinoshanduka kuva mabasa akanaka.
Muna Chikumi 2022, Halal Mafuro achatanga CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) chirongwa, kukohwa mabhokisi ezvakagadzirwa kuitira kuti vanyoreri vazotora papurazi mumwaka wekurima.
Vatsigiri vanotsigira "kururamisira kwezvokudya” shanda kubatanidza eco-hushamwari zviyero mumapurazi anogadzira halal uye kashrut chikafu. Nepo ivo vachishanda kusvika kumagumo enzvimbo yakachengetedzwa yenguva yemberi, izvi zvinoenderana nemabasa makuru e halal. “Haudi kusvibisa ivhu rawakapihwa,” Samer akadaro. "Unofanira kunyatsochengeta ivhu iroro ... nokuti iri ivhu richadya zvizvarwa-uye zvizvarwa zvinotevera."