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Ahmad Karaouni operates Nature's Bounty, a USDA-certified halal slaughterhouse in Vacaville, California, where he offers grass-fed and grass-finished animals that remain free of hormones and antibiotics. Karaouni's commitment to sustainable slaughter places him in conversation with two trends: a local food movement in the United States that seeks solutions to circumvent the maze of industrial food systems that blocks access to the sources of (and knowledge about) the food Americans eat; and, an emerging consciousness in the American Muslim community that, in the age of industrial slaughter, "halal," the standard of ritual slaughter in Islam, may not be enough to ensure that Muslims eat animals that are raised and slaughtered ethically. This thesis explores these themes through immersion-style journalism focusing on Karaouni's slaughterhouse. It includes direct observation and first-hand accounts gleaned from several hours of reporting at Nature's Bounty with Karaouni during a number of individual visits that stretched from December 2012 to March 2013. The reporting for this thesis is rounded out with first-hand interviews of additional individuals with knowledge of either slaughter or halal practices and an investigation of secondary source material. A version of this thesis will be published as a magazine piece in the food issue of San Francisco Magazine in August 2013.
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- Publication Date:2013
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- Degree:M.A.
- University:University of Southern California
- Advisor/Supervisor:S. Tolan
- Pages:21
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- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2013
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- proquest:1459215666
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