FWD: Wrigleys no longer Halal?

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I received the following email fwd, perhaps those of you most affected by its content would be advised to confirm for yourself, i'm not sure if this info can be obtained from the company website itself.


Assalamu'alaium

To all Wrigley Chewing Gum lovers, it is not halal anymore. Read below and e-mail from Wrigley...

Any Info can be obtained from http://www.wrigley.com..
e-mail From: pr@wrigley.com

Dear Hameed:

Thank you for visiting our web site, Wrigley.com, to ask if we Use any animal-derived ingredients in the manufacturer of Wrigley's gum. We appreciate your interest in our product. At one time, Wrigley products were made with vegetable-or mineral-derived softening ingredients.

However, the availability of these types of softeners decreased several years ago when major sources closed their manufacturing facilities. Since we can no longer guarantee that all Wrigley brands from all of our factories will always be made with vegetable-or mineral-derived softeners, our products may not always be acceptable for your diet. We're sorry that you may not be able to chew Wrigley's gum, but we appreciate your contacting us so that we can give you the facts.

Sincerely yours,
Denise Young
Consumer Affairs Department
WM. WRIGLEY, JR. COMPANY

[rez]

Assalaamu alaikum bro

i'm a little confused over this issue: if something could possibly contain animal products, n these products themselves are not known ie of what nature they r, or if theyre chemicals etc, does it make that product haraam or just doubtful?

i'm genuinely intrigued by this (im not just sayin it cos i like wrigleys hehe). is it the case that if the product comes from an animal while it is alive (eg milk) then it is still halaal, but if it comes from a dead animal then it is that which makes it haraam...since the animal mite not have been slaughtered correctly or could possibly be from a pig.

i think its quite important to get clarification on this issue seeing as Allah told us in the qur'an expressly not to go around making things halaal which he has made haraam n vice versa. naturally, if something is doubtful, we should still avoid it as the prophet warned us that doubtful things lead to haraam, but there is still a major difference between haraam n doubtful

ne views on this question would be welcome!

fee amaanillah

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Originally posted by rez
Assalaamu alaikum bro

i'm a little confused over this issue: if something could possibly contain animal products, n these products themselves are not known ie of what nature they r, or if theyre chemicals etc, does it make that product haraam or just doubtful?

i'm genuinely intrigued by this (im not just sayin it cos i like wrigleys hehe). is it the case that if the product comes from an animal while it is alive (eg milk) then it is still halaal, but if it comes from a dead animal then it is that which makes it haraam...since the animal mite not have been slaughtered correctly or could possibly be from a pig.

i think its quite important to get clarification on this issue seeing as Allah told us in the qur'an expressly not to go around making things halaal which he has made haraam n vice versa. naturally, if something is doubtful, we should still avoid it as the prophet warned us that doubtful things lead to haraam, but there is still a major difference between haraam n doubtful

ne views on this question would be welcome!

fee amaanillah

Well first is to establish whether it is right or not - and assumign it is....


If it is doubtful? you are saying avoid it right??

If it is haraam? you are saying avoid it right??


Under what scenario do you postulate we could consider it allowable - other than the position being incorrectly reported??

[rez]

well all i wanted to know was what made a thing doubtful as opposed to haraam.

if something is doubtful, yes we should avoid it but it wouldn't be haraam therefore we wouldnt be committing a sin if we were to use it/eat it.

that is an important point cos by telling someone something is doubtful we can tell em to avoid it but thats all...not that its haraam full stop.

neways im not sure what other circumstances would make it allowable unless, hypothetically speaking we were in israel n they used kosher animals....

however my point was.... what is it that makes these foodstuffs haraam / doubtfull?

[Pheonix]

What makes food stuffs haraam?!

http://www.bangladesh.com/forums/sho...?threadid=8010

[Pheonix]

I have to say this is the first i have heard of wrigleys chewing gum!

Reza what you say seems to make sense 'where does the product come from' I guess however we could get more information, this company seems a good one to get an answer if we e-mail them, it seems they have done search on such foods so far and to raise this to their attention would help us all.

http://www.halaal.co.uk/index1.html

[rez]

thanks for that nixy, its really informative. how do u remember where all those msgs were posted??

one question though: one of the types of haraam food u mentioned was " 4. food dedicated or offered in sacrifice to idols in place of Allah. "

i don't want to sound pedantic but what abt if no name is mentioned over the food? dont worry i dont buy my meat from sainsbury's but its an interesting point.

where i grew up, there were alot of arabs (i dont mean to generalise :O) who used to buy meat from the supermarkets on the pretext that it was meat from the Ahlul-Kitaab. now that argument has MANY flaws, such as most ppl here r atheists, they dont mention Gods name as they slaughter (unlike earlier times), they dont let the blood flow etc. but what is the meat was slaughtered, fulfilling islamic conditions, but Allah's name wasn't pronounced?

alhamdulillah nowadays halaal meat is available all over the country so we have no excuse (as some ppl tried to use b4) to buy ne meat from supermarkets. however we should still be wary of our own halaal butchers. i cant remember the specific details, but there was an incident in b'ham i think, where a popular halaal butcher got caught redhanded electrocuting the animal b4 killing etc. (basically not following islamic rules for slaughtering)