Kosher Products Have Gone Mainstream, Can Halal Foods Now Do Likewise in USA?

摘要

Pepperoni pizza for Muslims? It's not just coming out of the Middle East, but from Iowa, as halal (Muslim-permitted) food producers try to match the success of kosher food in North America. Kosher producers, meanwhile, are trying to extend their franchise. You can't get much closer to Middle America than Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where William Aossey, 65, son of a Lebanese Muslim immigrant, runs a company called Midamar that markets pizza with cheese and pepperoni made from halal beef raised and slaughtered according to Muslim dietary laws.