During Ramadan, which ends May 12 this year, Muslims honor the first revelation of the prophet Muhammad in a month of sacrifice, prayer and charity. Part of that sacrifice means abstaining from all food or drink, including water, from dawn to sunset. The daily fast is broken with a nightly communal feast, known as iftar. Many will choose to eat only foods considered halal, or permissible under Islamic law.
Boxes of dates, a fixture of nightly iftar meals during the holy month of Ramadan, are displayed in the halal grocery store Fertile Crescent in Brooklyn, N.Y., on May 5, 2021.Dishes vary by culture, but first there are often dates and soup, partly to slowly warm up the stomach after fasting.
Managers at halal grocers in these cities say prices are up considerably: In Dallas, lamb is up from $6.99 to $8.49 per pound, an increase of more than 20 percent, and managers said that because of meat processor worker shortages they couldn’t order as much as they wanted. Flour prices are set to rise 20 percent in Chicago, one halal grocery manager said. Fish is up a dollar a pound, from $2 to $3, in Atlanta, a 50 percent increase. And beef prices are spiking in New York.
“Instead of buying five pounds of chicken, they buy four pounds of chicken,” Hamed said. And they’re also more actively seeking out charity food distribution boxes. Because clients come from different cultural backgrounds and food heritages, the food boxes they distribute for Ramadan typically contain staples that can be adapted to multiple dishes. A typical box might contain a 10-pound bag of basmati rice, 48 ounces of cooking oil, a bag of chickpeas, a bag of lentils, a 5-pound bag of flour, a 4-pound pound bag of sugar, and canned vegetables and fruit.
“It was eye-opening because many of the vehicles, based on the vehicles alone you think they should be OK, but they needed food,” Sirajullah said.
Food shortages is being implemented. Some day we will find out who created these shortages. Those who created the famine will have the answer to fix the famine. You want like the answer, but you will have no choice.
There are other sources of protein than meat- Many Muslims I know break their fast with dates and nuts 🤷♂️
It’s hitting everyone!!
Welcome to America ! 😳
We are ALL bearing with the rise in food prices. No one cares about your religion.
everyone is not just people of a certain religion...like hellfuckingo
When you fast you tend to eat less so if anything the inflation democrats are causing is impacting muslims less during Ramadan .
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