Establish Halal Market Access, New Zealand an Example

Abstract

New Zealand is from the largest exporter of lamb and beef in the world, and accounting for around 47% of the world's trade in lamb. The New Zealand meat sector has always been a principal driver of the New Zealand economy system, generating approximately $7.5 billion annually in export earnings. The Halal meat grade is playing an increasing role in meat production and market in New Zealand and worldwide. Standardization halal meat production with government oversight is very important for development of meat export sector. This paper will highlight in the development of the standard and regulation in New Zealand halal meat industry. Methodologically, the paper will analyse the investment that formed through meat industry and New Zealand government to approach a modern legislations and rules to regulate the Halal meat production. The findings from this paper showed that, New Zealand has developed fundamental standards for Halal meat production and this drove New Zealand to be a key country to exports Halal certified meat.

Desired Muslims: Neoliberalism, halal food production and the assemblage of Muslim expertise, service providers and labour in New Zealand and Brazil

“…If they complied with these rules, they became officially authorized by the government. The objective of this governmental intervention was to ensure both professionalism and integrity in the halal supply chain, thereby creating trust among Islamic importing countries (NZ1; NZ3; see also Shatnawi and Al-Essa, 2017). The number of the so-called AHOs (authorized halal organizations) changed over time.…”